Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading lady Brigitte Bardot's amateur detectivisms is a rattle-trap French dance hall run by a blackmailer, who unknown to Miss Bardot has got the drop on her husband. The husband, played by Henri Vidal, has just stormed into the establishment to try to get himself off the hook, when the black-mailer-owner is murdered. The inevitable "innocent bystandars," none of whom, as Miss Bardot later discovers in her quest for information on the crime, are particularly innocent, witness Vidal's entrance, call the police, and set off the fireworks...
...church sculptor of statuary in Manhattan's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the huge bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, and a marble Last Supper in Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church; of congestive heart failure; in his rural Sandy Hook, Conn. home. A spry, chain-smoking Episcopalian, Angel munched on gingerbread cookies as he fashioned his models in clay, contentedly resigned himself to the traditional anonymity of his art, thought modern art "merely a passing phase...
...Harlem, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge told an audience that he "offered as a pledge" his promise that Dick Nixon's Cabinet would contain at least one Negro. Asked if he had discussed his speech with Nixon, Candidate Lodge managed to get Candidate Nixon off the hook by saying: "I am sure that Mr. Nixon will tell you that his Cabinet will be selected without regard to color or creed." Asked what he thought about Lodge's "pledge," Nixon said just that. As Lodge headed South on a campaign swing, he ran into angry questions from...
Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack, 51, who quit under fire in 1958, also got off the hook. Due to be tried again for conspiracy in rigging the FCC award of a TV channel in Miami (a first trial last year mired in a hung jury), Mack was examined by two court-appointed physicians last week. Their verdict: Mack is a bedridden alcoholic who has consumed from half a pint to a pint of whisky daily for years. The judge postponed the trial until such time as Mack can safely travel to a courtroom...
...time he had read Sidney Hook, James Burnham and Edmund Burke, he had decided that "to be a conservative today, you have to be a radical." This conclusion led to a $350-a-month assistant editorship on the Freeman magazine and another job with another right-wing magazine, the National Review, put out by his wealthy Yale friend, William (God and Man at Yale) Buckley. "The American tradition," Evans proclaimed in the Review, "is unequivocally conservative." Evans still serves the National Review as a contributing editor...