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There was even good dialogue to go with the pictures. In New York, Call Girl Nella ("Don't Call Me Madam") Bogart went on to brag about how the buyers she entertained for a General Electric wholesaler responded by ordering "carloads" of appliances (TIME, March 4). In Washington, Seattle Madam Ann Thompson told senators (see below) that even with support from the Teamsters' Union (membership: 1,400,000), a bawdyhouse chain would not pay in Portland...
During a three-day convention of G.E. dealers in Newark last July, said Rinker, he telephoned red-haired Nella Bogart, 32, who is on trial as the madam of a Manhattan vice ring. "I was requested by the sales manager," testified Rinker, "to ask Miss Bogart if she would come and bring a young lady with her for purposes of prostitution.'' When Nella and another girl, Pat D'Amico, 19, arrived, they registered at the hotel as mother and daughter, and got right to work. G.E.-Man Rinker picked up the tab for their suite-the customers...
...saleswomen, said Nella Bogart's lawyer, the girls gave the company its money's worth. He told of a third occasion in which an unidentified G.E. man brought two big customers up to Nella's Manhattan apartment. "In the course of the evening," said the lawyer, "orders were written for seven carloads of G.E. appliances." Later, one of the customers canceled four of the carloads, then called up and asked Nella for a date. Snapped Nella, according to her lawyer: "You can't come to see me unless you take the order you originally took...
...remains of Cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, dead of cancer at 58, were cremated while some 3,000 of his friends and fans showed up at a Beverly Hills church 20 miles away, where a memorial service was held for one of the few who ever beat Hollywood at its own game of all-cards-wild. Winning affection with a snarl, ever brushing off moviedom's hordes of phonies with the back of one hand, in the other eternally clutching a tumbler of Scotch, Bogart had won wide respect by managing, on screen or off, to be perversely ingratiating...
...this movie have become as classic as the story and just as susceptible to imitation--often by the same people. The late Sidney Greenstreet played Caspar Gutman ever after, and Peter Lorre has never quite gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade spits...