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David Charnay was sitting in a midtown Manhattan spot last week, tending to his business (interviewing a Broadway character for the New York Daily News) when a friend phoned with a hot tip. There'd been a brawl over at La Conga and-guess who-Peggy Hopkins Joyce was mixed up in it. Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave...
King Lear had a shiner. Laurence Olivier, set to play the role in Paris this week, got it in a brawl with a minor Old Vic player who had attacked him, declared Olivier's lawyer, "without any excuse whatever." Wife Vivien Leigh gave the fellow a queenly belt over the head with a poker...
...Republic lots tried to stop busloads of I.A.T.S.E. workers and imported goons from crashing their lines. In one melee, Deputy Sheriff Dean Stafford, knocked down and kicked unconscious, was rescued by Deputy Gilbert Leslie, who kept pickets at bay with the threat of his drawn revolver. In one brawl nine deputies and seven strikers were hospitalized...
State had a hot potato to handle; even circumstantial evidence was hard to find, and it did not want to get into a public brawl and be accused of Red-hunting. Its six-man screening committee moved cautiously, marked many dismissals for "incompetence" or other causes. Added to the ousted 40 were 39 others who were dropped because they were aliens or did not meet citizenship requirements. More than 200 others were put down as ineligible for permanent employment...
President Truman presided at the press conference, but Politician Truman made the news. Like a man itching to peel off his coat and get into a backyard brawl, he announced that he was out to beat a Democrat who had obstructed his policies in Congress. His target: conservative Representative Roger Caldwell Slaughter of Missouri's Fifth District, onetime neighbor of County Judge Harry Truman and now a candidate for renomination in the August 6 primary (TIME, July...