Word: chats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lineup, the restaurant's part-owner had a close look at Louis Hoffner and flatly stated: "He's not the man." The waiter, who had glimpsed the murderer for only 35 seconds, also failed to identify Hoffner-but after a ten-minute chat with police, the waiter returned and pointed at him: "That's the man; he was in the place the other night." A jury returned a verdict of guilty, recommending mercy. "I thought it might be well to put the boy away," was the way one juror, a woman, explained it, "because of his previous...
...Shakespeare was too "poverty-stricken" to chase around after them. What is more, church records show that by the age of 21, William Shakespeare was a married man with three children. His life, says Author Hoffman (who often writes as if Shakespeare had had many an off-the-record chat with him) was too "full of responsibility" to permit "the hours of solitude necessary for 'self-education...
...movie, Italian magazine readers delightedly noted that the flash bulbs used in making the pictures had penetrated her lingerie. Litigious Gina flew into a mercurial tizzy and vainly tried to get the negatives back; her irate husband, Mirko Skofic, dropped into Chinigo's office for a heated, futile chat. Resuits: Chinigo slapped two suits on Skofic (for violation of domicile and uttering in timidating threats); Gina sportingly sued Chinigo on three counts (abuse of her image, defamation of character, insults via telephone). Meanwhile, with her lawyer fattening on fees, Gina took a court recess last week...
...Person to Person, grand old (75) Actress Ethel Barrymore, whose autobiography, Memories, is a bestseller, dredged up an offbeat memory of Calvin Coolidge, shed possible light on why Silent Cal customarily displayed all the spontaneous gaiety of a Vermont blizzard. Leaving the White House after a unilateral chat with Coolidge, Actress Barrymore, in stitches from laughter, was confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny. Recalled Ethel: "And I said. 'Something the President just said.' And they all fell flat on their faces ... He really had made me laugh very, very much. I think...
...breezy deck of the liner Queen Elizabeth, just before they sailed for Europe, Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, loud-tooting czar of the A.F.L. musicians, shot the breeze with one of his most distinguished rank-and-filers, Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin. Subject oft their chat: the merits of forming a United Nations orchestra. Petrillo was heading for an international labor powwow in Vienna; Menuhin, between concerts in Europe, could get in some hot licks on a forthcoming book about his recent odyssey. Tentative title: Around the World on a G-String...