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...told "My Story" in a remarkable communique to the world, revealing in disillusioning detail an unsuspected peril in stealing a fortune: your new friends can be as larcenous as you, and as dangerous as the cops. Rees' 17-page letter was sent to San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen, who mentioned it in an item this month and sent the manuscript...
When her father died in 1951, Cheshire dropped out of Union College in Barbourville, Ky., and became a reporter for the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel. Assigned to the police beat, she promptly solved a two-year-old murder. Her husband Herb Cheshire, Knoxville U.P.I, bureau manager, was transferred to Washington in 1954, and Maxine landed a society-page job with the Post. Says she: "They wanted a polite person with elbow-length white gloves who was socially presentable...
Cheshire long ago hung up her white gloves and now attends parties only reluctantly. She does most of her reporting over the phone-often from the 18th century bed in the seven-bedroom house she shares with her four children and Herb, now deputy bureau chief for McGraw-Hill. Most daylight hours, however, she can be found on the phone in her cluttered Post office where, except for a full-length sable coat occasionally flung over her shoulders ("I'm not eccentric, I'm cold."), she looks like any other harried, cynical cityside reporter...
...Saturday matinee seems like the most important concert to miss. It stars Buddy Rich and his Killer Force (ugh), Tad Jones, Mel Lewis Orchestra (getting old but still top-notch) and the Herb Pomeroy Orchestra, which sounds like a pretty much unknown quantity...
Sandy's way out in Beverly, is featuring two more guitar greats, Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis through this week. Kessel and Ellis have been around. During their tours they have played with many of the greats. As is the case with so many of the old-timers. I could give you a string of names down to the end of this page, but I really don't think it tells you much about how good they really are. Perhaps this will help, however: Herb Ellis, say Sandy's p.r. men, is known as "Mr. Night Time T.V." having worked...