Word: mallon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mallon (Steve Cochran), a pitchman for a U.S. carnival touring West Germany, catches a fraulein named Willie (Anne Baxter) picking his pocket and hustles her off the midway. He kisses her. "I've been kissed before," Willie moans with pleasure when he lets her go, "but never-uhhhhh!" Willie "tries to resist" -being, as the synopsis explains, "an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany." But Joe "arouses her beyond her powers of resistance . . . and like so many others before her," she is carried off to the conqueror...
...Roman Catholic East Tyrone, where the Nationalist Party, which favors union with Dublin, has been in full sway since 1921. Some of the Nationalists in East Tyrone wanted to return Joseph Stewart, Dungannon publican, to the seat he has held for 20 years. Others thought better of Desmond Mallon, who publicly promised not to take the seat even...
...debating is: Did Joe win fair & square? For the coin they tossed was not of the British variety bearing the Queen's head, but a coin of the Irish Republic, with a harp on one side and a horse on the other. Joe Stewart, say the Mallon partisans, should have called "horses," not "heads...
...before the committee to complain came the National Automobile Dealers' Association, aided & abetted by the C.I.O. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther. Indirect controls, they cried, were awful. Regulation W was so harsh, said New Jersey Dealer William L. Mallon, that "many thousands of new car dealers [might be] compelled to discontinue their business." The auto dealers wanted the payment time on new cars to be extended from 15 to 18 months...
Died. Paul Raymond Mallon, 49, onetime Washington columnist, whose syndicated "News Behind the News" was read by millions; of a heart ailment; in Alexandria, Va. He retired in midcareer, wound up his last column (Sept. 16, 1947) with: "Don't you think a lot more people ought to go fishing...