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...absolute best, Cooney surely won the fourth round and maybe he took two or three others. But that was all. Scandalously, two Nevada state athletic commission judges had him leading at the end by rounds, six to five with one even, and behind on points only because Referee Mills Lane had deducted three for low blows. Las Vegas judges were the only mysteries left by the end of the evening...
...each of its 72 suites-began its life just a few years after Hollywood emerged as the world's movie capital. When it opened its doors on New Year's Eve, 1919, the staff unrolled a long crimson carpet down to Hollywood Boulevard, then a dusty lane, where lines of limousines deposited their elegant passengers. As the silent movie era gave way to the talkies, and Hollywood's business and glamour grew proportionately, the residences of its stars became more lavish too. There was the Hollywood Hotel, where Rudolph Valentino married Actress Jean Acker and spent...
Shortly after 11 p.m., Israel's Ambassador to Britain, Shlomo Argov, left a diplomatic dinner at London's Dorchester Hotel and walked toward his waiting car on fashionable Park Lane. Suddenly, a man who had been loitering near by opened fire on the Israeli envoy, wounding him critically. The gunman, later identified as an Arab student, was shot down by police as he attempted to get away...
Save-More Car Rental. The Hangar Charcoal Steaks. Cheetah Nude Dancing. The Vault Self-Storage Warehouse. Rich's Place Package Goods and Cocktails. The signs flash by on this dreary four-lane strip. "Welcome to Wheeling-the village with feeling." Finally, painted in neat black-and-white script, a tastebud red alert: Le Français. The building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue...
...Emma or Persuasion, by Lane Austen...