Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year,with two illegitimate children, aged two and four, Sylvie went to live in Paris' ramshackle Hotel du Theatre, a dingy four-story affair, its walls faced with chipped plaster, its windows hung with drying laundry. It was owned by Sylvie's old prison cellmate, Mme. Jeanne Perron, an amiable reformed fence known to most of her friends as Aunt Jeanne. Her little niece, Denise LeRoy, 12, soon moved in to join Sylvie's children, and in time the family circle was swelled by a handsome young Arab, Abdellah Saoulite, who had fallen prey to Sylvie...
...Digging. Pennsylvania's Republican Representative John P. Saylor thought the Harvey affair represented something more than a departmental slip. Before Congress he termed it "a vicious new scandal . . . perpetrated by high officials and politicians of the Administration." Since Harvey had been able to wangle a large power allotment from the Interior's Bonneville Power Administration before getting his loan approved, Saylor noted that Harvey had hired as his counsel C. Girard Davidson, one of Chapman's former assistants, who had worked with Northwest power agencies. Moreover, Saylor charged that the Harvey family, through big Democratic Party contributions...
...What's more, I'm gonna marry Franchot." Then Barbara stepped gingerly over Tom Neal's bar bells, still lying in her patio, and tripped off in high good humor. It all seemed to be working out in the best Hollywood tradition. Though the affair had cost her a leading part in a new picture, the publicity was making her such a drawing card that exhibitors from coast to coast were clamoring for prints of her latest film, a jungle epic aptly entitled The Bride of the Gorilla...
...outcome the first time General Mel turns up in civvies: "He looked like a plump and middle-aged nonentity, whom you might meet at a golf club and immediately forget, and whose face you could not place." The general's Pentagon pals try to break up the affair with Dottie, but they needn't have worked so hard at it. It was never Dottie's idea to live in a cottage with a general turned nonentity. She decides to ditch him, but has the good grace to let Mel think it is, his own idea...
Died. William J. Klem, 77, "baseball's greatest umpire," a favorite of sentimental sportwriters and unsentimental players alike; after long illness; in Miami. Starting out in baseball as a bush-league first baseman in Rochester, N.Y., when the game was still a rowdy, brawling affair, he became a National League umpire (1905-41) and eventually the league's honorary umpire in chief, officiated in more World Series (18) than any other umpire. A man who always called them as he saw them and claimed he never saw them wrong, he once proclaimed his faith: "Baseball is the greatest...