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During a law suit in Wilmington, Del. Mme Yvonne Alexandrine Cotnareani, divorced wife of Perfumer Francois Coty (real name: François Spoturno), revealed that he had settled half his fortune on her before their divorce in 1929. Amount settled: $17,000,000.
From Baltimore's Southern Hotel, where he shared a room & bath with his lawyer, to Baltimore's Safe Deposit & Trust Co. went Tobacco-Heir Richard Joshua Reynolds, just 28, to sign a few papers, claim his $25,000,000 patrimony. Said Heir Reynolds: "It's a lot of money but I can't get excited."
During a wrestling match in Alexandria. La.. Combatant Johnny Plummer became enraged at a ruling by referee Jack Dempsey, hit him. Referee Dempsey knocked out Combatant Plummer with three quick uppercuts to the chin. Up from a ringside seat scrambled 95-lb. Mrs. Johnny Plummer. She screech-scratched Referee Dempsey into a corner, tore his shirt, pulled his hair, drove him out of the ring.
*Mrs. Morrow's first book, The Painted Pig, appeared in 1930.