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...Amboy, Shane O'Neill, 39, son of tormented Playwright Eugene O'Neill, proved to have torments of his own in the ill-starred family tradition. Hauled in by sympathetic cops, unemployed Family Man (four children) O'Neill, twice committed to public hospitals in the past for dope addiction, was carrying on him a large bottle of amphetamine pills, a prescription drug sometimes used by former addicts to curb their craving for stronger fixes. Rapped $55 for not having a narcotics user's identity card, he had only $1 and some small change to propitiate...
...been preparing that act ever since she sang her way out of the chorus line and up to a mike at Manhattan's old Versailles club. Rodgers & Hammerstein spotted her there, signed her for Allegro (1947), outfitted her with a show-stopping song, The Gentleman Is a Dope. In Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (1949), she raised double-entendre to a fine art, singing I'm Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion. Since then, she has concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps the most velvety...
...begins for Chief Inspector Gideon (Jack Hawkins) when a "copper's nark" (informer) turns over a nasty kettle of fish: a member of Gideon's staff has taken hush money from a dope ring. Gideon rushes off to the office, rips the lettuce off his lapsed subordinate, sends out the alert for a sex murderer from Manchester. Then he looks in at the scene of a payroll robbery, gets word that the inspector he sacked has been killed by a passing car, discovers that the same car was used in the payroll job. Puzzled, he rushes...
...Nervous Set (book by Jay Landesman and Theodore J. Flicker; music by Tommy Wolf; lyrics by Fran Landesman) is a wry and indulgent spoof of the Beat Generation. The mood is mock-nihilistic. Instead of Waiting for Lefty, the hipsters of the '50s are waiting for Junkie (the dope peddler); in place of the prewar pacifism of Bury the Dead, the postwar passive-ists Dig the Bird (the late Saxophonist Charlie Parker). And, of course, boy meets girl...
...Theodore O. Thackrey, onetime editor of the New York Post, ran into difficulties with the haulers in his attempt to publish a new tabloid, the left-wing Compass. Referred to an ex-convict (bail jumping, dope peddling) named Irving Bitz, Thackrey paid Bitz $10.000-half what Bitz demanded-for a trouble-free contract with the Deliverers. After collecting the money, Bitz introduced Thackrey to Joseph Simons, then president of the Deliverers' union. The Compass died three years later, but it had no trouble with Simons' union...