Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yorkshire miner's son who went into the pits at 14, Frank Cousins switched to truck driving when depression made mine jobs scarce. Humping meat and machinery long distances at low pay, he caught the eye of Ernie Bevin just before World War II, and became a T.W.U. organizer along the northern roads. Brought to London in 1944, he scorned the desk, never lost a chance to get out among the men, in truckers' cafes and pubs, on docks and in warehouses...
...Houston radio shows. He was hustled to New York, shorn of his Elvis Presley locks, fitted into a grey flannel suit and photographed in Central Park, looking sincere. RCA is pushing him with the trade on two newly released singles: Just Look, Don't Touch, She's Mine and Love A, Love A Lover...
Smut Station. One result, testified lanky (6 ft. 4 in.) Howard Rushmore, 45, onetime Daily Worker movie critic, onetime New York Journal-American Redhunter and onetime (until October 1955) Confidential editor, was that "newspaper friends of mine" who had freelanced for the magazine were dropped by Harrison or scared off by his demands for "hot, inside material." Among the reporters named on the stand by Rushmore (but not in Los Angeles press accounts of the trial) was United Press Hollywood Reporter Aline Mosby, who was replaced in the press gallery (for reasons of "illness") after a defense attorney declared that...
...prosecution testimony, sleek-haired Robert Harrison finally decided to mine his own lode of dirt for some 60 stories a year on show folks, and in 1955 set up a West Coast smut station called Hollywood Research Inc. (TIME, March 11.) Man-and-womaned by Harrison's niece, icy-faced, flame-haired Marjorie Meade and husband Fred.* H.R.I, handed out checks at the rate of $10,000 a month in one six-month period to keep pay dirt oozing into Harrison's shabby Manhattan headquarters...
...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...