People: First Families

Private Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, playful great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, sued his wife for divorce while he sweated out a sentence, his second, for going AWOL. The wife: Cafe Society Character Lenore Lemmon, who married him in 1941 and abruptly went home to mother crying that he was tattooed from head to foot. Jakie's divorce charge: she was AWOL.

Winston Churchill had another divorce in the family—the second in 1945.* Year's first had been Daughter Sarah's from Comedian Vic Oliver. Now column-writing Son Randolph was dropped by the former Pamela Digby, after six years, one son. Said she:...

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