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Sued. Eugene O'Neill, playwright; by Gladys Adelina Selma ("Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

In Chicago, Mrs. Helen Johnson sued her Scotch husband, Arthur, for divorce. Claimed she: He would not let her use a vacuum cleaner lest it wear out the rugs; he would wake before the alarm clock's orison to save the spring; on July 4, he bought the children no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Sued. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, husband of Mary Josephine ("Polly") Lauder Tunney; by a Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorced wife of a Fort Worth plumber; for breach of promise; for $500,000. Claimed Divorcee Fogarty: she met Tunney at Hot Springs, Ark., in October 1924; next year, and later still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

McLean v. "Record." Readers of the hard-hitting Philadelphia Record had their attention arrested last fortnight by news that Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington, D. C., Post was suing the Record for one million dollars damages for an article descriptive of "a social incident" between Publisher McLean and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

In Chicago, one Henry Redfeldt wooed for six years a Wisconsin maiden he had never seen, sent her $6,000. Last week he sued his landlady, said she had devised the courtship, invented the maiden, stolen the funds, written the answers to his letters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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