Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHN P. LEONARD JR. Lieut. Colonel, U.S.M.C. Quantico...
Died. Jacquin Leonard (Jack) Lait, 71, oldtime Chicago newspaperman, since 1936 editor of Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror (circ. 913,691 daily, 1,664,703 Sunday); after long illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes...
Some top Republicans, including Party Chairman Leonard Hall and Senate Leader William Knowland, stepped in to say that McCarthy should get off the committee and should not cross-examine wit nesses. Hall had swerved sharply from his attitude of two months ago when he said that McCarthy was a Republican "asset" who should have the party's endorsement...
...Hawaii, where he trysted with Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, now his fourth bride. Last week, back in Manhattan after two futile days of rushing around the capital and trying to talk to the right people, Haymes took Rita nightclubbing. They were joined by table-hopping New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons, who reported that he scribbled while Haymes wept. "If I could change my bones, my flesh," Haymes cried. "No, no second beginning. I know this land and love it ... When I leave, I guess I'll just say, 'America, forgive me.' " Murmured Rita: "Well, they...
Fists nearly became persuasion methods for and against "Father" Leonard J. Feeney in his war with the University, Jews, Protestants and Catholics, in a squabble at Adams House yesterday afternoon. Alan K. Campbell, Assistant Senior Tutor at Adams House, was accosted by Feeney before police broke up the near riot...