Word: file
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yegg Art. In Baltimore, Josephine Ditmore, convicted of robbing a restaurant and a tailor shop, told the court that she had forced her way in with a nail file, a lady's razor and eyebrow tweezers...
Winchell went back to hoofing for two weeks at the Hotel Tropicana to ease the pinch of losing his TV income from the canceled Walter Winchell File. Spectacular billboards glutted the highways for 300 miles around Las Vegas (and up and down Hollywood's Sunset Strip), radio stations spewed his own breathless announcements all over the West, the Tropicana was laden with huge photographs of Winchell hovering near President Eisenhower (caption: "The only reporter allowed this close...
...picture of a blue-eyed, shock-haired Texan, partly obscured by a green-lettered streamer: SOLD OUT. Long before the concert was scheduled, Berlin-based Musicologist Paul Moor, a onetime professional pianist himself, went to Moscow to cover the Tchaikovsky International Competition for TIME, soon began to file glowing reports about 23-year-old Van Cliburn's performances, and his triumph as a winner of the first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager of Van's, traveled with him constantly, collecting research and protecting him from...
Oldtime Cinemactress Corinne Griffith, 58, in her heyday the eye-filling "orchid lady of the screen," revealed that the bloom was off her 22-year marriage to garrulous George Preston Marshall, onetime Washington laundryman and owner of the Redskins pro football team. Corinne, a West Coast realtor, will file for divorce, told a reporter: "There is no marital bliss in being 3,000 miles apart. And as hard as I tried, I just couldn't learn to play football." Promoter Marshall, for once, had no comment...
WALTER REUTHER'S POWER as undisputed labor chief of auto industry may be challenged by skilled members of his United Auto Workers who have formed two splinter craft unions, aim to file in 200 plants to win bargaining rights and fatter raises and benefits than unskilled U.A.W. men. Automakers will side with Reuther to battle splinter groups, fear that small number of separately organized skilled workers could paralyze industry if they wanted to strike...