Word: evyleen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, white-haired Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, 59, Tallulah Banlchead's onetime secretary, who was charged with kiting $4,284 worth of checks and convicted of second-degree grand larceny (TIME, Dec. 24), came into court to hear her sentence: indefinite probation, because of her age and health, instead of a possible six-year prison term. It was fair enough, said Plaintiff Tallulah: "I did my duty as a citizen, the jury did its duty, and now I'm sure the judge has done his. You get so mad you could spit, as they say-you'd like...
...sensation-seekers and eyebrow-lifters were tantalized almost beyond endurance three weeks ago, when Tallulah Bankhead's grey-haired, 59-year-old ex-maid, Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, went on trial for larceny in Manhattan. Mrs. Cronin's attorney loudly promised to prove that his client was forced to buy "marijuana, cocaine, booze and gigolos" for the actress, and that she raised Tallulah's checks only to pay for her employer's excesses. But though Tallulah paced like a fevered tigress, in her desire to testify, the defense, equipped with windy oratory rather than facts, refused...
...Manhattan court, Mrs. Evyleen R. Cronin, 58, onetime secretary-companion and maid to Tallulah Bankhead, was charged with stealing more than $4,000 from her former employer by raising and forging checks. The money was used, cried the defendant's lawyer, to buy things for Miss Bankhead-"Cocaine, marijuana, liquor, booze, whisky, champagne and sex." Retorted outraged lava-voiced Tallulah: "Of course I drink. But nobody has to kite checks to pay for my liquor." As for dope: "Even if I had been getting it-which I certainly wasn't-do you think I'd have been...
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