Word: lila
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George II & All That. After selling his life story to the News of the World (for a reported $40,000), Alfie settled back to crack the laws of England. In the course of researching Alfie's abstruse legal quibbles, plump Lila Stuckley, his common-law wife, became a familiar figure in the British Museum's venerable reading room. Said she: "Oh dear. I find it all very difficult. Laws going back to 1742. George II and all that, and that queer language with all those double efs instead of esses." Alfie, to litigation born, delved up enough dusty...
...obscure reference book cited by Hinds, Alfie chided: "My Lord, you are not with me." Last week, on another tack. Hinds tried and failed to get yet another hearing before the Lords. As he was led away to serve half-a-dozen more years in tightly guarded Parkhurst Prison, Lila was on the point of tears. "This time," she said. "I am really afraid." Alfie's admirers had more confidence. Only last month, prison authorities found that Hinds had fixed the lock on his cell so that he could get out at will...
...club that sold some $20 million worth of platters. From all sources, the Digest grossed a total of $155 million last year. Its profits are not published since the Digest is about as privately held as a company can be; it is controlled by DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila...
...gauging the tastes of their vast audience, DeWitt and Lila Wallace pay little heed to the Digest's critics. Nor do Digest editors. "If Wally likes it," an editor said some years ago, when the magazine had a mere 12 million subscribers, "12 million other people will like it. It's like that." In Chappaqua, 30 miles from New York, the Digest staff works in a big building that looks like the high school of a particularly prosperous suburb, listens to canned music drifting through the halls, and departs the premises-on orders from Wallace...
...MUCKRAKERS (449 pp.)-Edited by Arthur and Lila Weinberg-Simon & Schuster...