Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emory Holt, an engineer officer in the merchant marine, had met and married pretty, dark-haired Norma Bew six years before. Emory liked chess and classical music; Norma liked men and gaiety. In the Manhattan camera company where she worked, she had met young and handsome David Whittaker. When Emory got back from one of his voyages, he found Norma changed. With a seagoing officer's methodical care, he noted her behavior in his "log"-when she came home nights (0230); her condition (drunk, smeared lipstick). He hired a private detective, whose reports confirmed his fears. He noted that...
...phone call to her mother in Hollywood was Norma's last desperate hope. But Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...
...Manhattan's League for Less Noise sighted on a new target: the loose manhole covers that go clonk-clonk when cars pass over them...
Mary Pickford, 55, and the Gish sisters, Dorothy, 51, and Lillian, 52, posed together at a Manhattan restaurant, looking not at all as if some 40 years had passed since they first brought girlish graces and golden curls to the early U.S. screen. Even Mary's dialogue sounded familiar: "We girls get together as often as we can. We belong to each other, in the never-never land and into tomorrow...
...Under a Manhattan auctioneer's gavel went 65 gold, gem-studded snuffboxes and watches collected by the late great Tenor Enrico Caruso...