Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most curious situation, perhaps unique in these courts," mused Mr. Justice Devlin last week, "that the act of murder has to be proved by expert evidence." Even Dr. John Bodkin Adams, the defendant in one of the longest murder trials in Old Bailey's history, was said to have asked in wonderment, "Can you prove it was murder?", when police arrested him last December on suspicion of having poisoned his eccentric old patient, Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell, in seaside Eastbourne six years earlier...
...cricket team will open its season on the house football field against Brown at 1 p.m. On the starting lineup are Barry Eastment, Mansoor Wharton-Ali, John Biggs, David Robinson, Greg Davis, Don Shojai, Neville Markham, Charles Brower, Alan Gould, Sam Bailey, and Roger Wykes...
Hammer Throw--Bailey (A), 165 ft., 4 in.; Javelin Throw--Press (H), 165 ft., 11 in.; 120-yard Hurdles--Downs (H), 15.6 sec.; 100-yard dash--Liles (H), 10.2 sec.; Mile Run--Martin (H), 4:32.4; 440-yard Run--Hildreth (H), 52.2 sec.; 220-yard low Hurdles--Downs (H), 25.7 sec.; 220-yard dash--Liles, 22.3 sec.; Discus Throw--Digman (A), 123 ft., 9 in.; 880-yard Run--Cahn (H), 2.05; Pole Vault--Halaby (H), 11 ft., 6 in.; Broad Jump--Liles (H), 21 ft., 2 in.; High Jump--Kean...
...Recalls Producer Harry Mynatt: "They had a hell of a time getting an audience-had to pass out dollar bills to get people into the theater. " Now the ladies fight to get into the Hollywood studio, bolt a buffet lunch, and scribble their wishes on a card. M.C. Bailey and Producer Mynatt select the 21 likeliest wishes, and backstage interviews just before air time pick the day's five contestants to be judged by the studio audience. "The woman who gives her wish from the bottom of her heart," muses Bailey, "just about gets it every time...
...Bailey and the show's staff of 30 usually manage to fulfill every queen's wish, no matter how outlandish. (One notable failure: "World peace.") The show hires detective agencies to run down lost children, once sent a winner to barber's college. "One lady wished for an electric eel," says Bailey. "She wanted, to make a broth for her son to help his asthma." Without asking any questions, the show tracked down an eel and delivered...