Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...
...this--the Mrs. Lee whose check created the Department is 1939--is still very active in her lifelong hobby of legal medicine. Not only has "Granma" Lee taught the Department many of its tricks, but she has spent much of her time making a gallery of 15 exact doll-models of scenes from actual crime cases...
...yelled: "I'm a happily married man!" seized her wrist, and "dumped" her. "It hurt," she cried. "I was also humiliated. I said, 'Where do you think you are-in the movies? Keep your damned doll...
Actually, only a few Senators were opposed to the bill itself. Their case was sketchily made by Nevada's George Malone, who waved a Japanese-made Kewpie doll and shouted across an all-but-empty Senate floor: "We are importing unemployment." Ohio's forthright Robert A. Taft got down to fundamentals. "The issue is whether we believe in free trade or we don't," he said bluntly. "I do not believe in free trade. I agree that the whole world would be better off on the average. But the U.S. would be worse off. We would average...
...bets, and wound up at Sherry's, a nearby gin mill patronized by racketeers, movie stars, detectives and high-priced prostitutes. Mickey settled as always in Booth 12, which commands a view of all exits and entrances. One of his boys picked up a movie doll named "Dee" David, and brought her over. Just before 4 a.m. Mickey got ready to leave...