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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work habits are abominable. He is busiest when the sky over the city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, and busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard. He is furiously honest, but he can spot a rigged wheel with a sharper's skill...
...usual drab cast of bohemian friends and family-Brigitte Bardot. Bratby claims no speaking acquaintance, picked her out of a magazine one day when a model failed to show. Of Bratby's current Bardot pictures, Critic Newton noted: "He has not yet begun (and perhaps he never will begin) to learn how to brood. Profundity is therefore beyond his present reach. [But] daydreaming is at least one step on the way from seeing to brooding...
...directors of the Combined Charities Drive have announced House captains for this year's campaign, which will begin...
...from exposing her secret life with J. Edgar-whom she has never met-Dolly Schiff revealed nothing more sensational than her own insinuation that the No. 1 G-man had stopped at practically nothing in an effort to kill a series of stories on the FBI about to begin in the Post. Banking mostly on intuition, Publisher Schiff charged that she was placed under surveillance ("Apparently the FBI was indeed watching me") ; she insinuated -without any shred of evidence-that her hotel rooms were bugged. On a trip to Washington, she said, she was warned by the Post...
...ORDERS worth $40 million were placed by Capital Airlines for seven Convair 880s and five Lockheed Electra turboprops, to begin service in mid-1960. To place orders, Capital arranged to stretch out payments of $37 million owed for its 57 Vickers Viscount turboprops...