Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling everybody he was in the hospital with a slipped disc. The thing is, he was. With Gianni bedridden, Anne, 23, now six months pregnant, dressed up in a silver and white minitent and trooped off to the benefit premiere of Hawaii, organized by her mother. Anne's escort: TV Producer Michael Santangelo, a friend of Gianni's who looks enough like him to fool any photographer...
Labat and Poret were charged with raping a young white woman, who was wrenched from her escort's side on a dark New Orleans street in 1950. Sentenced to death in 1953, the condemned men won nine stays of execution, once beat their date with the electric chair by only three hours. On grounds ranging from coerced confessions to perjured testimony, they appealed to Louisiana's top state court twice, to the U.S. Supreme Court four times. In 1964, the pair broke Caryl Chessman's eleven-years eleven-months Death Row record, and kept appealing...
...traditional cake-eating indignity. Before the couple made their farewells and departed on an unknown honeymoon about 6:45 p.m., Luci made a last speech from the south balcony, then tossed her bouquet. It wound up, with a little sisterly collusion, in the possession of Lynda Bird, whose escort at the wedding was Actor George Hamilton. "Thank you all," said Luci, "for this beautiful, wonderful day, the most magnificent day of our lives...
Locals lounging about the Grand-Place of the Belgian town of Chièvres-hardly grand and barely a place-stared sullenly as the cavalcade of black limousines and a police escort swirled up. "Things like that don't happen much around here," allowed one, "so we figured that it must be that Chape [Walloon dialect for SHAPE] thing again." It was. NATO's General Lyman Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was hunting new quarters...
...borrowed his father's 1963 Plymouth until he bought his own car. Yet it was several weeks before Washington gossips realized that Students Jack Olsen and Paul Betz, Luci's previous best beaux, had a successor. The reason for the recognition lapse was simply that her new escort, with his aseptic, athletic good looks, short blond hair and modest mien, resembled any number of the Secret Service agents in Luci's orbit...