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...they have accomplished little. Papa Debray, muttering comparisons to "the trial of Joan of Arc" and "the Dreyfus case," has only succeeded in firing his son's Bolivian lawyer. He has urged Regis to conduct his own defense-which Papa sees as "a dialogue between the philosopher and the sword." Mama Debray, meantime, caused a near riot by defending those nice guerrillas to an audience that included the survivors of some of the guerrillas' victims. She also threw her son a dialectical screwball by revealing that "it was very difficult for me to understand his book." Said...
...Beverly Hills" suite of cages, home of such four-legged thespians as Judy the chimp, who can understand 76 verbal commands; Clarence the cross-eyed lion; Bruce the ocelot, who was a regular on TV's Honey West; Zamba II the lion, who appears on the Dreyfus Fund commercials; and Modac the elephant, a 53-year-old veteran of the Ringling Bros. Circus. Tors's Method menagerie accounts for 90% of all the animal scenes filmed in Hollywood; the going rate for a jungle headliner, who travels with two handlers and a standin...
Died. Louis Dreyfus, 89, aggressive German-born head of one of the world's largest music-publishing empires, Chappell & Co., who in the 1890s followed his older brother Max to the U.S., where they made a fortune publishing the works of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, then shifted to London in 1929 to take over Britain's venerable Chappell & Co., establishing branches throughout the world and tying up the publishing rights for just about every major Broadway composer from Romberg to Loewe; of a heart attack; in London...
...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...
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