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...restaurant business than starve as a musician. He chose the name Stuft Shirt both as a satiric jab at his neighbors and to convey the idea of a well-filled belly. There are now three Stuft Shirt restaurants in Southern California -best and newest a Venetian-style palace at Newport Beach...
...went through night law school while in charge of the Identification Bureau, won appointment as chief in 1951 after scoring a phenomenal 99.33% on the promotion exam. During his regime, Schrotel quarantined Cincinnati against the spread of organized crime, prevented gambling and prostitution in Kentucky border towns such as Newport from sweeping across the Ohio River...
...such big-boat races as the America's Cup and the Newport-Bermuda contest, the winner owes as much to his boat as he does to his own sailing savvy...
...Senator Pell is a real smoothie, all right," said a Newport matron, "but this colonel is really dragging him up and down over the coals." The colonel in question is Lieut. Colonel Briggs, U.S.A. (ret.), a brisk-mannered, parade-ground-voiced old campaigner who is gunning for the Rhode Island Senate seat of Democrat Claiborne Pell...
...into winning the Viet Nam war more quickly ("I'm not as scared of China as some people are"), calls for more steps to stop inflation. Moreover, she seems able to throw a continuous barrage of barbs at Claiborne Pell, whom she calls a "curlyheaded croquet player from Newport." Referring to Pell's good looks, she says: "I concede that if the election were on the basis of looks, I would lose. My campaign managers wanted me to do something with my hair, lose 20 lbs. and put some sex appeal into the campaign; but my reaction...