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Pistol Whipping. Carl completed high school, enrolled under the G.I. bill as a psychology major at West Virginia State, but after a year went back home to Western Reserve University. He was still undecided as to a career-psychology and the ministry were possibilities-when in 1948 he became chauffeur to a political organizer in Frank Lausche's gubernatorial campaign. After Lausche won, Stokes was offered a state job and chose to be a liquor inspector. He was a tough one. In his first case, a lone foray against an unlicensed saloon, the tough barkeep and customers laughed...
...band of Duvalier's 26-year-old daughter, was sent packing off to Madrid as Haiti's Ambassador to Spain. As Dominique's plane taxied down the strip, Duvalier's private Gestapo or Tonton Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen), jumped Dominique's two bodyguards and chauffeur, then hustled the three men off to jail. Last month Duvalier dismissed Dominique from the army "for the good of the service," and ordered his son-in-law to return to Haiti to stand trial for "desertion, mutiny and treason." Dominique is not likely to obey, for his father...
...firm, rythmic roar you hear in propaganda films. Wherever there was a television camera, the press agents urged the girls to "scream now" and paid the lucky ones 25 dollars to faint on cue. When the Beatles finally arrived at the Plaza, the crowd charged and nearly killed the chauffeur and two doormen. The PR men sighed with relief. Through a mixture of circus press-agentry and true love, the Beatles were already, on their first day in America, becoming more popular than Jesus...
...Before giving his famous dinner parties, Carl Loeb held dress rehearsals on the preceding evening-with real food, real wine and substitute, or second-string, guests. On entering Williams College in 1895, Herbert Lehman, who later became New York Governor and U.S. Senator, took along his private car and chauffeur. Therese, daughter of Fanny and Solomon Loeb, could not button her dress at 18: servants had always done...
Died. Jayne Mansfield, 34, sometime actress and full-time publicity chaser; of a crushed skull when the car she was riding in slammed into a truck, also killing Attorney Samuel S. Brody, 40, and their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded-by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...