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...Yorkers reared in the urban equivalent of the log cabin. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who lived in The Bronx when the two boys and their kid sister Pat were small. After the father's modest fur business failed during the Depression, the family operated a cloakroom concession in a Newark catering hall...
...Democratic cloakroom just off the Senate floor, Hubert Humphrey cracked, "Segretti did it. It had to be one of the dirty-trick guys.'' Los Angeles Times Cartoonist Paul Conrad lost not a second in sketching a lascivious Jimmy Carter fantasizing over the Statue of Liberty-undraped. A Californian just back from a trip winked at his wife and announced: "I've got that Jimmy Carter feeling...
Unable to squeeze compelling copy from the desultory doings on the floor, reporters fanned out to interview delegates, their wives and children, hack-ies, bartenders, cloakroom attendants and even hostesses at the free convention-hall bar set up by the railroad lobby to mellow reporters. Gilbert Giles and his young colleagues at Children's Express were interviewed no fewer than 25 times by the convention's close. The New York Post devoted a column to California Governor Jerry Brown's remarks during a visit to a hamburger stand. Between 200 and 300 reporters asked for interviews with...
...notorious sound system to steer the bright beam over the crowd. The silver-studded dancers break apart like mercury and slither sullenly towards the exit. There is a twenty minute wait for coats;the boy with the orange cape has donned less auspicious clothing and bustles about the cloakroom, calling out numbers, grabbing tickets, rolling his eyes...
...told the coroner's jury that she was watching television with the elder daughter, and the nanny, Mrs. Sandra Rivett, 29, had just gone down to the basement kitchen to make tea. When Mrs. Rivett did not return, Lady Lucan went downstairs and heard a noise in the cloakroom. "Somebody rushed out and hit me over the head. Three more blows followed. I screamed, and the person said 'Shut up!' I recognized the voice of my husband." Police found the nanny's battered body in a canvas sack and bloodstains on the walls and ceilings. Ironically...