Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he had long urged: a deal for the use of Spain's bases in the defense of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Then he was off on a rapid swing around Europe. On Thursday he was in France, conferring with Eisenhower; on Friday he was in London. Leaving at midnight, he flew down to Naples, sleeping fitfully in his personal plane. Saturday was busy with official talks, and he took Mrs. Sherman to dinner and an opera in the open-air theater in Pompeii. Sunday he was up early in his room in Naples' Excelsior Hotel, bordering...
Allen's rise to TV stardom has been rapid. Until one year ago he was best known as a disc jockey in Los Angeles. There he built up a faithful following for his midnight radio show and, by popular demand, dispensed more chatter than records. His fans included workers in Hollywood's film industry, and, because of comments from them (Groucho Marx: "the freshest and most promising thing I've seen in radio in a long time"), CBS began to take notice...
...when they returned to Cicero last week and moved their furniture into the apartment, they found a handful of Cicero and Cook County police-and a large and hostile crowd. Frightened, the Clarks left -but the crowd didn't. Until midnight, the crowd milled in the street, booing, and jeering when Cook County Sheriff John Babb ordered them to disperse, occasionally throwing stones...
Violence at Midnight. Around midnight the mob got bolder. A dozen or so young bloods rushed the cops at the doorway to the apartment house, pushed past them, smashed in the front door, clambered upstairs to the Clark apartment. Out the window, to the accompaniment of cheers from the crowd, went all of the Clarks' furniture, including a piano. Then the young vandals tore out door and window jambs, gouged holes in the walls, ripped out light fixtures, smashed radiators, a refrigerator and stove, bashed in the toilet bowl. For good measure they ripped up two apartments below...
Scolded by testy cab drivers, seared by his best girl's refusal to elope with him, and surrounded by an adult world of "phonies," he loses control of his tight-lipped histrionics. He sneaks home for a midnight chat with his perky ten-year-old sister, breaks down and cries on her bed. In a moving moment, he tells her what he would really like to do and be: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody...