Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife of New York Editor Max Ascoli and leading financial angel of her husband's magazine The Reporter...
Typical shark was squat, hoarse-voiced Max Chester (convictions for extortion, bookmaking, robbery), who walked into the offices of a Brooklyn plumbing supply manufacturer, Paul Claude, one day in 1954. Announced Max Chester: "I am going to unionize your shop." Testified fearful Paul Claude last week: "He wanted $2,000 to give me a contract that I can live with. I said, 'I haven't got $2,000.' He figured out with pencil and paper that a contract I couldn't live with would cost me $12,000. I could save myself...
Checks & Zippers. When Claude hesitated, Max Chester harassed him with threats, inquired pointedly about the health of Claude's children, reminded him that it was dangerous for children to play in the street. " 'They can get hit by a car.' It was always with the arm around my shoulder, and 'You have got to pay us off because you are mine and I own you. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine.' I was scared to death." In the end Claude paid Chester about $1,400 by cashing worthless checks...
Married. Margaret Leighton, 35, veteran British star of stage (the Old Vic, Separate Tables) and screen (The Constant Husband); and Laurence Harvey, 28, Lithuanian-born, dark-haired British cinemactor (I Am a Camera, Romeo and Juliet), who was named as corespondent in her 1955 divorce from Publisher Max Reinhardt; she for the second time, he for the first; in Gibraltar...
...Gluck admitted to "$20,000 or $30,000." (The record shows $26,500.) Then Fulbright asked how much Gluck contributed in 1952, and Gluck said "around $10,000." By then, even a nearsighted Bald Iggle would have spotted the hatchet in Fulbright's hand, but not ingenuous Max Gluck. He blundered on, trying to give honest and accurate answers as Fulbright whacked away. Gluck did not recall the United Nations report blaming Russia for smashing Hungarian independence, or that Ceylon was one of the five signing nations. Afterwards, he explained that he knew the name of India...