Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspect No. 1. At dawn on July 4 Marilyn's bedroom was red with blood. Her pajamas had been pulled open and her hands had been bruised...
...Mandate. Soon the light began to dawn on Studebaker workers. Horvath began getting phone calls from union members complaining about the vote; half a dozen petitions, each bearing 75 to 100 signatures and asking for reconsideration of the proposal, landed on his desk. He called an emergency session of his 20-member executive committee, and another membership meeting was scheduled. When the rank-and-file turned out to vote on the wage cut last week, their changed temper was obvious. Warned one opponent: "This is a deal you're going to have to live with for a long time...
Shortly after dawn cracked over the waking town of Independence, Harry Truman, in his first public sally since his illness, popped out of his house, strolled a block to become the day's third voter at his precinct in Missouri's primaries...
...Into the Dawn. What happened next (according to Gina-Hughes is not talking) was all a terrible mistake. Gina's story: Hughes sent a T.W.A. plane to Italy, flew her to Hollywood. At the airport she was met by Hughes agents, who shooed reporters away, bundled her into a limousine, hurried her off to "a hotel distant from the center of the city . . . I discovered I was practically locked in the hotel, unable to get in touch with anyone." All day she endured English lessons, '"orrible RKO peectures," rehearsals for her screen test, and the importuning of lawyers...
...Producer Hughes would drop by, order the hotel orchestra to keep right on playing after closing hours, and just the two of them in the darkened ballroom would dance romantically into the dawn. After six weeks of this, Gina broke down, signed "a preliminary piece of paper," flew back to Italy. Hughes has the option still, but Gina insists she will go to Hollywood "only if I get the right sort of contract...