Word: madams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What do retired U.S. Presidents do?" asked a lady some years back. "Madam, we spend our time taking pills and dedi cating libraries," explained the most venerable expert on the subject, Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President, as he helped the 33rd, Harry Truman, dedicate his presidential library at Independence...
...Frank that she paid $335 to have the woman murdered; of asphyxiation (cyanide); in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. Her 33-year-old son, an owl-eyed Santa Barbara lawyer, fought her case through a lurid trial during which she admitted that she had once been madam of a brothel and had married eleven times. "She was," said Frank, "the best mother a boy ever...
...infant boy is sent to America. He returns after 20 years, and by stunning coincidence enters the tawdry cellar nightclub that his mother now owns. The woman stares wet-eyed at her long-lost son. She says nothing, poignantly. The youth must never know that this bulging madam is his mother...
Died. Polly (real name: Pearl) Adler, 62, longtime (1920-45) Manhattan madam whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny...
...ticket office downtown to check the passenger list. Over and over again, Chief Reservation Clerk Colette Lautzenhiser picked up the phone to say: "Yes. they were on the plane ... I am so sorry." Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the phone, and her eyes closed. "I am so sorry, Madam. They were on the list." "Don't Cry." Insistently, radio bulletins tolled the death list. The Journal issued an extra-the first since Author (Gone With the Wind) Margaret Mitchell died 13 years ago. President Kennedy and President de Gaulle wired their sympa thies. Mayor Allen said, "This...