Word: battistella
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...Honey, if I was Wilbur, I'd never let you go in the water," quipped an elderly wag to Burleycutie Annabella Battistella, alias Fanne Fox, 38. The somewhat dampened Argentine firecracker was in Boston's Pilgrim Theater making her first public appearance since she leaped from Representative Wilbur Mills' limo and took a header into Washington's Tidal Basin. After nursing a couple of shiners in her Arlington, Va., flat (in the same building as the Mills' apartment), Anna returned to the career of burlesque dancer she gave up on Mills' advice a year...
Foxe, whose off-stage name is Anibella Battistella, said she was happy to receive the award, even though she is not a Republican and has no political ambitions...
...business in Washington to campaign for re-election back in Arkansas. But that was before his recent misadventure. Last week Mills emerged from nine days of nursing his abrased dignity and flew home. On the plane, a CBS reporter questioned Mills about his Argentine-born friend Annabella Battistella, 38, the onetime stripper who wound up in Washington's Tidal Basin after dashing from Mills' car. "Was there anything between you and the young lady?" asked the reporter. "No," replied the Congressman, "I ought to be flattered at my age of 65 for anybody to ask me such...
...distinguished career and formerly impeccable reputation. The man was readily identified as Wilbur Daigh Mills, 65, the 18-term Democrat from Arkansas who, as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is one of Congress's most influential barons. The woman was soon found to be Mrs. Annabella Battistella, 38, a bosomy stripper who used to style herself "Fanne Foxe, the Argentine Firecracker." Now that the firecracker has exploded in Mills' face, he just might lose his seat in Congress and along with it the chairmanship of what is widely regarded as one of the two or three most...
...then visited another public place," Mills continued, "and after a few refreshments, Mrs. Battistella became ill and I enlisted the help of others in our group to assist me in seeing her safely home ... As we proceeded home, she attempted to leave the car and I attempted to prevent it. In the ensuing struggle, her elbow hit my glasses and broke them, resulting in a number of small cuts around my nose." Mills called himself "embarrassed and humiliated by the entire turn of events...