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...paying guests, most were game, and a few were gamesome. There was the wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least likely to succeed...
After burning up the prairie country for five or six years, Welk-who had now taken charge of the band and toned down his music-got a playing date in Pittsburgh's William Penn Hotel, where the band wore white tie and tails that "hid the farm a little but didn't hide all of it." Welk went on network radio in Pittsburgh and began to be known nationally, was good enough by 1947 to fill in for Guy Lombardo in Manhattan. Since 1951 Welk has been playing regularly at the Aragon, an ancient ballroom in Venice, Calif...
...Kravitz and Regnelli, in a way not entirely clear, was a man named W. A. Parzow, a convicted jury tamperer from Miami and Atlantic City, who seemed to have been instrumental in getting Chotiner and his troubled clients together. Called to the stand to tell his. own story, Parzow hid behind the Fifth Amendment, guzzled one glass of water after another, complained that he was a sick man and wailed: "All I want to do is drink a lot of water to flush out my one kidney...
...chestnut, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This piece, with its viscous melody in the middle, is a musical hodge-podge. It serves mostly as a showpiece for pianists, and Freeman gave it a truly virtuoso performance. He showed a wily mastery of the keyboard that partially hid the banality of the music...
...ripening corn, blossom-scented orange groves, drying creek beds and shifting dunes, to the shallow trench that divides Israel from the refugee-jammed Gaza strip. The Israelis killed eleven, captured four. One patrol stalked a returning assassin team for 18 hours, killed all five "self-sacrificers" as they hid in a clump of trees between Rehovoth and the border. Those captured proved no supermen. They said they had been trained in Cairo, dispatched on their murderous errands by the Egyptian army intelligence chief at Gaza. Moaned one 18-year-old: "My father owns a tobacco shop, and he begged...