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...Mell Stewart, then a suburban Los Angeles barber, was mysteriously summoned to the Beverly Hills Hotel in spring...
...Mormon Mafia, the six gentlemen in waiting who were recruited by Summa Corp. Vizier Bill Gay, himself a Mormon, and attended the anchoritic Croesus day and night, in eight-hour shifts. They were assisted by four physicians on 24-hour call and five lesser functionaries, including Gordon Margulis and Mell Stewart. For their services the six senior aides were (and apparently still are) paid as much as $110,000 a year each. They equipped his various hideaways, decided which messages would reach him, censored his reading matter. In short, they controlled Howard Hughes...
...French see America? As an attractive, animated drawing that tends to be simplistic, just like any image that one people conjures up about another. Pell-mell you would doubtless see the landing of the G.I.s in Normandy, Roosevelt, Ike and Kennedy, Wall Street, cavalcades of Indians in the Far West, Al Capone, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Muhammad Ali, pretty majorettes, West Side Story, bourbon and Coca-Cola, man's first steps on the moon-with a musical background of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington...
...cast's spirited foolery inoculates the evening with laughter, and John Lithgow's pell-mell direction would probably secure a friendly salute from the dean of comic mayhem, George Abbott, now 88, who directed Boy Meets Girl the first time, 41 years...
...extending new loans, and so some consumers and businesses, especially those with less-than-top credit ratings, will be unable to borrow as much as they want. Indeed, for the banking system as a whole, the current troubles have brought a pause after a dec ade of pell-mell expansion and diversification in which Citi bank and its aggressive, caustically droll Chairman Wriston led the way. The outlook now is for several years of more cautious policies - and tighter Government supervision...