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...Whiz. In Philadelphia, after a state liquor-control agent testified that Stripteuse Julie Gibson concluded her "Dance of the Bashful Bride" wearing only a G string, Julie assured the judge that she had never seen or heard of such a garment and had ended her undulations modestly draped in mesh panties, declared with indignation: "I have never worn anything less...
...Sept. 10 et ante). Two were sentenced to five years in federal prison, the other to two years. Scheduled for trial this week: Mob Chief Johnny Dio (real name: Dioguardi), 42, charged with plotting the attack to keep Riesel from testifying in a grand-jury investigation of trucking-and garment-industry rackets...
When he was only five, David Daniel Kaminski, lean, red-haired son of a Russian-born garment worker, made his professional debut as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149. Within 25 years, the little seed had sprouted into a big U.S. buffoon called Danny Kaye. Comedian Kaye mugged, mimicked and gitgatgittled through vaudeville and such hit Broadway shows as Lady in the Dark, was carefully nourished in Sam Goldwyn's Hollywood hothouse, and had his own radio show. For ten years of playing to packed houses, he never ventured to play the biggest...
Over a loudspeaker an apologetic voice said, "Mr. Stevenson's plane will be twenty minutes late." Placards dropped and voices quieted, save for a determined and well organized group from the Garment Workers Union ("Bra Division...
...Millionaire." When the show's time ran out in midsentence, Ike remained for half a dozen more questions. The best were pitched after TV cameras clicked off. e.g., by Manhattan Garment Worker Isadore Siegal ("I didn't make up my mind yet in this election"): "You have a lot of people that are big shots in the Cabinet. I want to ask you, Mr. President, do you think of all the working people alike-like in the big business?" Said Ike: "I have three or four very successful businessmen in the Cabinet . . . the Defense Department is spending something...