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...Grove routine is pretty shapeless, although each year a couple of glittering original shows are staged beneath the trees. This year the Bohemians did a musical about murder in a whorehouse called Dammit. Who Done It? in which, presumably, the moral was that too many crooks spoil the brothel. Occasionally, particularly learned or prized guests make informal, off-the-record speeches in the glade. Herbert Hoover has spoken there, and so have Dwight Eisenhower and Nelson Rockefeller. Attorney General Robert Kennedy addressed the Grove alfresco a few weeks ago. It was Goldwater's turn last week...
...clarity with which he uses other people's weaknesses. When he outgrows the back country and moves to Jefferson (in The Town and The Mansion), his tribe begins to infiltrate and increase. There is Montgomery Ward Snopes the pornographer, Wat Snopes the carpenter, Virgil Snopes the barber and brothel athlete, and a score of others. When Flem takes over the Sartoris Bank, his success is proof of the loosened grip of the older, principled families...
...most unusual came into the agency's possession when it took over $106,000 in mortgages on a small and sleazy hotel in Houston after the First National Bank of Marlin, Texas, failed in March. What the FDIC has on its hands, it seems, is a brothel...
...already resolved to quit Turkey and travel to the United States. As the eldest son, he is sent on ahead to invest the household treasures in the capital. And the hardships begin. The boy kills a shiftless Turk who has robbed him, loses a second cache in a brothel, and nearly dies in a raided meeting of revolutionaries. Of course Stavros is undaunted. He mutters continually, "I have a plan...
...Club, according to O'Reilly, existed about a decade ago, and operated a swank and exotic brothel near the Square for the "scions of America's wealth-last and most socially prominent families...