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A Manhattan court ordered pink-cheeked, white-whiskered Realtor-Philanthropist August Hecksher, 88, to continue paying plump, blonde Operasinger Frieda Hempel, 51, $15,000 a year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire...
WILL OSBORNE, the orchestra leader, has only a slight connection with Yale. He once sued Rudy Vallee, Yale Alumnus, for a sum running past the $200,000 mark. Rudy, Will averred, had copied his crooning from Will Osborne. At that time Will's voice and vocal manner was so much...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation...
Settled, The claim of Frank Brandon Smith Jr., Charlotte, N. C. hardwareman against his onetime father-in-law, Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon. Thrice Plaintiff Smith took to court his charge that Towelman Cannon had disrupted his marriage with Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, who previously had divorced the late Zachary...
In Manhattan, Leonard J. Winston, 26, $30-a-week real estate and insurance salesman, met and wooed Elinor Samuels last September. Winston convinced the girl he was rich, took her on a luxurious West Indies honeymoon, gave her so many orchids other passengers knew her as "The Orchid Lady." Then...