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...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest. pitting a fiery, sexy shrew. Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...
Erie ("I was dragged up in Erie, P-A -some punk burg") has returned to his fleabag hotel one night in 1928, after a five-day mourning binge. Ostensibly, he is grieving for Hughie, the recently deceased night clerk, but actually he grieves for himself. Hughie was Erie's false mirror image, the man who gave him the confidence to see himself as he is not. Hughie was the heaven-sent sucker who believed that Erie was the lovemaster of Ziegfeld Follies girls, that Erie beat the "bangtails," the cards and the dice, and hobnobbed with big-time Broadway...
...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest, pitting a fiery, sexy shrew, Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...
...trouble finding evidence, commissioners may grant continuances until the case is better prepared. But they have no power to determine guilt or innocence. According to the Justice Department, Miss Carter was clearly out of line when, on the whispered advice of a local district judge's law clerk, she invoked the trial standard of hearsay evidence. But except in big cities, where most commissioners are seasoned lawyers, such ignorance is probably widespread. According to a recent study, the commissioners of one North Carolina federal district have meted out fines, put defendants on probation and even tried cases for offenses...
...profitable overseas operations into a separate Hilton International Co. that accounted for $60.3 million of Hilton's 1963 sales. Hilton will continue to head the international branch. Texas-born Bob Williford, a social friend and bridge crony of Hilton, started in 1932 as a $30-a-month room clerk in the original Dallas Hilton Hotel after the Depression collapsed his bond business. Gradually, he became Hilton's closest associate in building the company into the world's largest hotel chain. While Hilton made deals, Williford shaped day-to-day operating procedures. An easygoing executive who campaigns constantly...