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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week in the crowded calendar of widowed Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor and freshly divorced Crooner Eddie Fisher: both made beaming appearances at a banquet honoring Old Vaudevillian George Jessel, where Liz chipped in $100,000 for some Israel bonds; Eddie hosted a surprise 27th birthday party for his lovely friend, gave her a purse studded with 27 diamonds; Liz leased a Nevada desert ranch, just to be near Eddie during a Las Vegas saloon engagement next month...
...declared a juvenile delinquent by Children's Court in Jamaica, L.I., for fighting in a furtive gang rumble. But worse followed. Released in the custody of his mother, David was driven to Flushing precinct headquarters, where police accused him of breaking into a drugstore with a white friend, stealing $9 and some cigarettes. When David confessed, Roy was crushed. "I tried to help as much as I could with juvenile delinquency, and here's my boy that jumped the track," Roy said. "Whenever I spoke to boys who had been in trouble, I asked them to think...
Charles Willson Peale, portraitist, scientist and revolutionary idealist, had the same expansive spirit as his good friend Thomas Jefferson. He raised his children to be geniuses, saw them more or less painfully sink to the level of ordinary men and women. Young Raphaelle found solace, as he sank, in parlor games, ventriloquism, a pretty shrew of a wife, his art, and the bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical...
Winning by Phone. The Journal began to worry after it got a tip that the next prizewinner would be a chiropractor's wife. Sure enough. Mrs. Josephine Hill, a Portland chiropractor's wife, won $2,600, and finally told how she did it. Approached by a friend. Mrs. Hill agreed to have an entry submitted in her name-she did not even have to make it out. When it won. she banked $300 of the take and. as agreed, surrendered $2.300 to the friend-who turned it over to the fixer after subtracting $150 as an arranger...
...leader of the New Jersey underworld''; by his own hand (hanging) ; in his 20-room mansion in West Orange, N.J. Longie Zwillman, who once used the alias George Long, came out of Newark slums to become a rich and famed Jazz Age bootlegger, peer and sometime friend of the best names in the blue book of U.S. crime: Dutch Schultz. Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked him with the Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted...