Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deported from the U.S. in 1946 and from Cuba in 1947, onetime Vice Racketeer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano glumly faced possible deportation from Rome to his native Sicily. Italian police suspected that he was mixed up in dope smuggling. Protested his girl friend, from Luciano's Rome penthouse: "It's like Charley always said, just persecution, that...
...girl, Soprano Patrice Munsel, 24, struck an old pose (see cut) and dived into a new project: she will spend the summer learning German roles, to round out a repertory that includes the French and Italian...
...kicking off the 1949 campaign, Chicago got its chance to remind its citizens that it had pioneered in bringing the fight against VD into the open. Its publicity-loving Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, once dragged in Al Capone's girl friend for a blood test. He still tacks up syphilis quarantine signs himself, with the butt of a pistol, on any tavern which refuses to send its bar girls in for tests. Pointing to Chicago's syphilis rate, which has dropped 45% against a national drop of 37%, Bundesen boldly boasts: "Chicago is the safest place...
Tubby, benign Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, came asaving. Last fortnight, his shoe-button eyes shining, Monteux was in the pit at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg theater. Onstage as Orfeo was Kathleen Ferrier (TIME, March 14), the English girl whose sumptuous contralto has earned her first title to the role. The rest of the cast, including a first-rate soprano named Greet Koeman, was Dutch...
...Shelley Winters) who was his girl friend in the happy-go-lucky war days. Next morning when Miss Winters is found to have disappeared, leaving behind a bloodied scarf belonging to Powell, he takes his next false step. Instead of reporting to the police, he sets out to run down the murderers and is presently up to his ears in big-time racketeers, a ferocious police dog, and a presumptive case of rabies...