Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polite crowd of 15,000 sat through a barrage of speeches in a Ciudad Trujillo park one muggy night last week, applauding with the kind of suppressed boredom usually found at amateur theatricals. The occasion: a rally of "reaffirmation" for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In similar spirit, the Dominican Senate addressed itself to a resolution to erect two more busts of Trujillo in the capital, already so statue studded that new sites are scarce. The resolution passed...
Toward week's end, not getting an expected invitation to harangue the Texas state legislature, Ole Earl headed for El Paso and the night life of Juarez, just across the Mexican border. He bounced back fast to foray north into New Mexico, where at Ruidoso Downs race track he plunked down a horse-choking roll of at least $12,000 on several races, later allowed: "Ah think Ah made a couple hundred dollars...
Nobody paid any mind the morning a throaty Broadway actress gulped down some repairs for the damage of the night before and strode about her villa in the buff with a pet monkey perched on her shoulder. Only an outsider-a Western Union boy-was shocked. When he delivered a telegram, the boy took one look at the apparition bowing low before him, shoved the message into the monkey's paw and fled...
Splash in the Night. Everyone was delighted when Humorist Benchley moved in, accompanied by Columnist John McClain, who trundled Bob from party to party in a wheelbarrow when walking was out of the question. At the Garden Benchley created some of his most memorable epigrams. There, when a friend said that drink was a slow poison, Bob, nose down in a beaker of martinis, answered: "That's all right. I'm in no hurry...
...Loose was high on the charts for weeks, sold more than three-quarters of a million copies. Tiger, his latest, a song that Columnist John Crosby observes is "enormously improved by total unintelligibility," is climbing fast. Its popularity helps 16-year-old Fabian earn up to $12,000 a night, gets him TV appearances with Perry Como, Ed Sullivan, and other TV bigwigs...