Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born plain Terence Nelham, Singer Faith earns $140,000 a year and gets 300 letters a day from doting clutches of his Faithful-to the great distress of Dr. Coggan. "Adam Faith tells youngsters that the meaning of life is sex," he complained in a speech a fortnight ago. "Adam Faith tells us nothing about life hereafter or why we are here." Faith was like shocked. "Teenagers think a lot less about sex than adults do," he said. "I'd like to meet the archbishop and tell him what I think about things." The BBC brought Coggan and crooner...
Last week police were still holding Abol Hassan Ebtehaj "for investigation" without bail. Even Premier Amini was saying, "He is an honest man, and I hope he soon will be released." Commented the New York Times: "American friends of Iran can only feel distress...
From the first days of the talking movie, the cry of Hollywood celebrities in distress has been: "Get me Giesler." For whether the charge was rape or murder or merely mental cruelty in a divorce case, Jerry Giesler was the best defense attorney in town. Last week the irreplaceable Giesler died, at 77, leaving behind him a saddened and nervous Hollywood...
Died. Harold Lee ("Jerry") Giesler, 77, canny counsel for two generations of Hollywood celebrities in distress, whose courtroom histrionics won him fame as "The Magnificent Mouthpiece"; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...court. Queen Elizabeth (Blanche Thebom) ships Wilton off to Turkey to avoid permitting a misalliance with his inamorata Lady Anne (Doris Yarick). There the michievous Sultan (played to perfection by an appropriately ponderous Ezio Flagello) imprisons Jack in order to keep an excellent organ player. A Venetian damsel in distress named Dorina (actually not in a dress at all, but disguised as a janissary, afraid of the tortures of the Sultan's seraglio, joins Wilton and begs him to help her escape. Jack promises the Sultan to turn Dorina-in-disguise into a musician better than himself within one month...