Day before he went off to jail for ten years for tax evasion, tall, bald "Nucky" Johnson got married. The 58-year-old political boss of Atlantic City for three decades took as his bride ex-Showgirl Florence Osbeck, 33. ≤≤ Molly O'Daniel, 19, daughter of Texas' Senator-elect W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, married Oilman Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23, in the executive mansion at Austin. Pappy had invited everybody, but most of the 6,000 who showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife's support, pay Marva $200 a...
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