Word: go-between
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...town whose crusted cynicism almost dissolves under the influence of the love of Marguerite Churchill, who interprets the role of Paula Jordan. He gives one of the most brilliant performances as a during ever seen. Max Kane, who plays a minor star, gives a convincing impersonation of the stock go-between. Ann Andrews, who wears the clothes of Mrs. Oliver Jordan surprisingly well, does not measure up to the standard set by Judith Wood in the part of Kitty Packard. "Dinner at Eight" will be one of those plays that one will have to see eventually...
...matters like this Wall Street is prone to rely heavily upon the famed doctrine of Caveat Emptor ("Let the buyer beware"). On the other hand the investing public, as represented by their District Attorneys, like to put the blame for any loss on the financial go-between...
Salvatore ("Salvy") Spitale, engaged by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh as an underworld go-between during the kidnap negotiations, was arrested in a Manhattan speakeasy for carrying a loaded pistol, discharged next day because he had a permit from a rural county...
John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, said that a onetime rumrunner had come to him on March 9 as go-between for the Lindbergh baby-snatchers. Mr. Curtis spent two fruitless days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know...
...Salvy" Spitale was an obscure figure. The Press itself did not know much about him save that he made some of his money out of restaurants, was regarded as trustworthy by a number of gangsters and had Irving Bitz for a right-hand man. Go-Between Spitale thereupon disappeared from his usual haunts, and while everyone was wondering where he would bob up next, up he bobbed at a Madison Square Garden hockey game in Manhattan...