Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several places to give Maria air-into the corridor and returned to his compartment. Police and border guards, working methodically through the car, looked at Bernd's papers; one guard asked where his luggage was. Bernd said he had shipped it on to West Germany by rail express. The guards glanced casually at the suitcase in the corridor, went on to the next...
Some real names are out of character. Roy Rogers was Leonard Slye. Boris Karloff could not have frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...
...Jimmy can't expect me to stand up and praise him for the crooked life he's led," wrote the father of Murderer-Rapist James Hanratty (TIME, March 2) in London's Daily Express (circ. 4,328,524). Elsewhere in the paper, the girl Hanratty raped relived her travail: "I thought he wouldn't do it. I thought it could never happen, that I was dreaming." London's Sunday Pictorial (5,306,246) weighed in with first-person accounts from the beautician who dyed the fugitive killer's hair, and from other members...
These gaudy journalistic outbursts had one thing in common: all of the stories were bought and paid for by Britain's popular press. Even Hanratty himself optioned his story to the Express-which was shrewdly holding off a while, perhaps until Hanratty's date with the gallows. The prices that Fleet Street paid for its stories were not high; the Express, for example, managed to sew up its principals for some $8,000. Yet for unabashed checkbook journalism, Fleet Street has its own style...
...dissolved nine British subjects in acid after first quaffing goblets of their blood, collected $14,000 from the News of the World for an exclusive story of his grisly deeds. An attorney for a woman cleared of fatally poisoning her spouse accepted bids on her story (the Sunday Express won, for $35,000). Some years ago, a murderer sold his confession to a paper even as he pleaded his innocence in court...