Word: mel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Mel Torme, 40, jazz singer; and Arlene Torme, 35; in a double decree granted on grounds of mutual cruelty; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...MEL ECKLUND Beverly, Mass...
Karate Chop. Get Smart! began as a product of groupthink when Talent Associates saw The Man from U.N.C.L.E. rising on the ratings and shrewdly suspected that the Bondwagon had room for one more. They commissioned Old Pro Mel Brooks (The 2,000-Year-Old Man) and Young Pro Buck (TW3) Henry to hack out a script about a fumbling hero. Instead, Brooks and Henry decided to make him a bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like...
...says, she suffered a migraine headache and went to a hospital. During her absence, something even odder happened to her millionaire husband, Miami and Houston Financier Jacques Mossier, 69. He was bludgeoned and stabbed 39 times. The results were fatal. According to Miami police, Mossier left a note: "If Mel and Candace don't kill me first, I'll kill them." While Candace fled to the Mayo Clinic for more migraine therapy and treatment for what she calls "too many red corpuscles," the Miami cops extradited Melvin Powers, 23, Mossler's burly nephew. As police told...
...takes skill to cover floods. Also courage. Mel Ruder risked life and health and shared news with competing media to keep the public informed [May 14]. When I nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize, there was no elaborate scrapbook. His Hungry Horse News spoke for itself...