Word: giro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Robinson publishes Chapter Five of his novel, a segment of which was widely appreciated by Advocate readers several months ago. This excerpt, titled "Afternoon in Formia," concerns a ruse devised by two rakes giro and Lorenzo, to acquire bank funds that do not belong to them, and also, a devilish trick that Giro plays on Lorenzo, in which the latter, in an effort to demonstrate that a person consumed by pity blinds himself to reality, receives, for his services, not the roses that he anticipates, but rather, an unfortunate pelting of old artichokes and rotting lettuce heads...
...says Artist Giro. "That's why I decided to show the left...
...show is Sammy Davis Jr., 29, who in the past four months has become one of the hottest acts in the nation's gaudier nightclubs-Las Vegas' Last Frontier, Hollywood's Giro's, Miami Beach's Copa City. Last week Davis was packing them in at Manhattan's Copacabana, and columnists were hurling exclamation points. Variety's verdict: "In the main, socko." Yet Davis has been doing much the same act since before the war, sometimes without making enough money to buy a new pair of pants...
...Start. The big turning point for Sammy Davis Jr. came after an accident six months ago that could have floored him for good: an automobile crackup in which he lost his left eye. When he turned up at Giro's soon afterwards, undaunted, and joking about his eye patch ("Gotta go now, gotta do a Hathaway shirt ad"). Sammy's comfortable popularity suddenly changed into a major fad. He was hailed by every Hollywood star from Ava to Zsa Zsa. The great ones came to weep and cheer. Less enthusiastic customers got at least one impression that...
After Sonja Henie, onetime world figure-skating champion, now a shrewd ice-show promoter, tossed a $15,000 circus costume party at Giro's nightclub in Hollywood, one of her 200 guests, who had wowed the gala by coming as himself in lace cuffs, squired Hostess Henie to another nightspot. There Sonja posed cozily, cheek to cheek, with her escort, Schmalz Pianist Liberace, still himself in the exotic resplendence of a nubbed-silk dinner jacket and polka-dot shirt...