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...thinly fictionalized, essentially documentary book tells, in the words of Defense Attorney Paul Biegler, of the investigation and trial that follow. Biegler gets a series of rude shocks: luscious Laura's husband has a nasty disposition and a tendency to attack any man who admires his wife. There is some doubt that Laura was raped at all (in examining this problem, Author Voelker is even more clinical than James Gould Cozzens was in By Love Possessed). To make things still tougher for Defense Attorney Biegler, the prosecuting attorney-who is also Biegler's rival in an imminent congressional...
After semi-singing his way through more than 600 performances of Broadway's nonstop musical My Fair Lady, Actor Rex Harrison sailed away from his historic stint. Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were headed for a seven-week holiday in Switzerland, then to Paris, where Kay will wrestle with Rex in a movie titled The Reluctant Debutante. When April trips round again next year, Harrison will be doing business in the same old stance-as misogynous Professor 'Enry 'Iggins...
...Test. In Rome, after suspicious policemen took Blind Man Federico Pugliese, 29, to the station, passed a luscious pastry before his eyes, with no flicker of recognition, a wad of 10,000-lira bills, with no result, a pack of pinups which made him take notice, he yelled: "You cheat...
...paintings, the world-famous masterpieces back home again: Dürer's Four Apostles, Altdorfer's cosmic Battle of Alexander, Rubens' dramatic Battle of the Amazons, Rembrandt's eloquent Descent from the Cross, El Greco's ominous Despoiling of Christ, Boucher's luscious Girl Resting...
From Haiti came tidings of the restless honeymoon of self-satisfied Novelist James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, 33, and his luscious, platinum-tressed bride, Gloria Mosolino, 29, whose previous claim to fame was a brief stand-inship for Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Before going to Manhattan last week to grapple with his publisher, Jones discoursed long and freely about his latest goo-plus-page opus, Some Came Running, due for autumn publication. "The book," crowed Jones, "is 300,000 words longer than Eternity. The last six months I lived on gin and Miltown while finishing...