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...whites and blacks. When he and his family entered the newly desegregated Druid Theater, a rumor spread that a Negro woman had accompanied them. As it turned out, there were no Negroes in the theater at the time, but a crowd of nearly 1,000 whites gathered, pelted the cashier's cage and the marquee with rocks and bottles, shattered the windows and slashed the tires on Palance's rented car. Local cops took the Palances to the police station for protection...
Died. Mazie Phillips, 72, angel of mercy to Manhattan's Bowery bums, a guttural-voiced platinum blonde who worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...bystander jumped into the patrol car, called headquarters. Seven blocks away, the cashier at the Texas Theater telephoned police to report that a suspicious-looking man had entered the movie house, was constantly changing seats. At 1:35, four cops entered the theater, where the movie, War Is Hell, was just starting. The lights went up. The cop killer rose and cried: "This is it!" He aimed his revolver at one police man and pulled the trigger-but the weapon failed to fire. The cops jumped him and there was a fierce, brief struggle. Hauled bruised and kicking to police...
...started in 1920 by a pair of company sleuths, Mark Bernstein, now 74, and his late brother, Will, whose names are joined in Willmark. Led today by President Bernstein, Willmark has spawned many imitators but still leads the field. Besides keeping a watch out for the bartender, restaurant cashier or gas-station attendant who neglects to ring up a sale on the cash register, Will-mark's 1,500 fulltime "shopping analysts" also rate each salesperson's ability by filling out a secret, 60-question "Selling-Quotient-Builder" after every transaction. Were his fingernails clean...
Dillinger himself was a longtime admirer of Douglas Fairbanks. When robbing banks, he vaulted over the partition to the cashier's cage rather than force his way through the door. He loved the gallant gesture: when he ordered a bank clerk to lie flat during one of his holdups, he insisted on spreading a teller's smock for her on the floor...