Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, his family at his bedside, John Foster Dulles, 71, died from cancer and the complications of pneumonia. "Is it all over?" a member of the family asked. One of the doctors nodded. Janet Dulles moved quietly to the head of the bed and looked down at her husband's face. Nobody said a word. And in all the lands of the globe where liberty and independence are prized, the free and the thoughtful mourned the tough old warrior who had fought their fight with rare purpose, skill and dedication...
...know who wears both button-down collars and a collar pin"), works and lives quietly, avoids Washington's social swim. In the office from 8:30 to 7:30 p.m. six days a week, he often goes home to a brace of martinis and dinner, then straight to bed. He smokes sporadically, munches Life Savers to cut down on the weed, carries his head at a peculiar starboard tilt (he says he picked up the habit while trying to dodge low-slung overheads aboard ship). Gates has not had a full-fledged vacation in six years, manages only...
...Dead in Bed. Schindler was hired by Sir Harry's daughter, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, after Sir Harry was found-dead, bludgeoned and fire-scorched in bed -by his lone house guest, Bay Street Real Estate Tycoon Harold Christie, now 62. The private eye showed that preliminary investigation of the murder was botched, helped get an acquittal for the prime suspect, Nancy's husband. Count Marie Alfred de Fouquereaux de Marigny. When De Marigny was expelled from the islands after his acquittal, Nancy had the marriage annulled, tried marriage a second unsuccessful time, has been seen around London...
...York Post by successfully bombarding established gossipists with unsolicited material. He gets up at 1 p.m., stalks the famous in likely lairs (El Morocco, Toots Shor's, Sardi's, the Colony) until 3 a.m., when he finally sits down to whack out his column before falling into bed at 6 a.m. Said he, on the recent occasion of receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree from Ohio's Wilberforce University: "I know of no other job I would prefer-than to go wherever I want to go, see whomever I want to see, and write whatever...
...free "ring job." At about this point, poor Tony is driven to drink (something called a Laughing Hyena: one part vermouth, two parts gin, three parts whisky). After which he of course starts to laugh like a hyena, blacks out, wakes up the next morning in Debbie's bed. "You were wonderful," she sighs adoringly. "You better get some more sleep. After last night you need it." Tony stares at the camera in horror. "What," he asks the audience, "have I done...