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...house. With guns in one hand, hypodermic needles in the other, said Archerd, they injected both himself and Zella with a drug, then made off with $500 in cash, overlooking jewelry and other valuables. Archerd was unaffected by the unsought medication, but his wife went from convulsions into a coma and died. If they found anything odd in such a story, Covina police found no cause for arrest. Kindly Uncle William. The third unfortunate, in 1958, was Juanita Plum Archerd, wife No. 5. Two days after their marriage in Las Vegas, Juanita was taken to the hospital, suffering from what...
Rosemary and Guy, hip young sophisticates, scoff at such superstitious notions. And soon, in fact, Guy's acting fortunes are on the rise. But then, one by one, untoward events happen: a ghastly suicide, a sudden blindness, a paralytic coma. Dark signs and otherworldly hints occur: black candles, "tannis root" or Devil's Fungus, missing articles of clothing...
...White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, in a jet over the Pacific heading for a meeting in Japan, got the words of the shooting via an AP ticker. Some immediately began jotting down notes of their personal impressions-which triggered bitter anger in others. Salinger, stricken to "a semi-coma," quickly organized a poker game, played blindly and madly during the entire nine-hour flight back to Washington, wound up winning $800 and "was appalled...
...devotion to the theater. She earned about $9,000,000 in her long career, playing in the world's top theaters as well as tents and makeshift open-air stages. As she lay dying at 78, in her Paris house on March 26, 1923, she rallied from a coma to ask if there were any reporters outside. When she was told that there were, she smiled. "I can tease them now a little by making them cool their heels," she said. And then she died...
...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...