Down in Washington, D.C., four-times-married (and divorced) Mrs. Louise Cromwell Brooks MacArthur Atwill Heiberg, 67, was writing her memoirs and saying a few advance words about her second husband. She became Douglas MacArthur's first wife in 1922, said the New York-born socialite, over the objections of General John ("Black Jack") Pershing, who was also courting her. "Pershing told me if I married MacArthur he would send him to the Philippines." But she did not divorce the general eight years later because she hated the islands, as has been reported. "It was an interfering mother-in-law." There is more, too, she promises, including...
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