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AMERICAN “PLAYBOY” PLAN FOR SHOW GIRL • (Rccd. Oct. 23, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 21. Tommy Manville, “playboy” heir to asbestos millions, impulsively chartered a 28-passenger airliner at a cost of £6OO to fly Elinor Troy, a Los Angeles show girl, alone to New York. He told the press that he was making her his fifth wife, adding: “The war news is boring me and I decided to get something else on the front pages.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 9
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