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Emory Holt, an engineer officer in the merchant marine, had met and married pretty, dark-haired Norma Bew six years before. Emory liked chess and classical music; Norma liked men and gaiety. In the Manhattan camera company where she worked, she had met young and handsome David Whittaker. When Emory got back from one of his voyages, he found Norma changed. With a seagoing officer's methodical care, he noted her behavior in his "log"-when she came home nights (0230); her condition (drunk, smeared lipstick). He hired a private detective, whose reports confirmed his fears. He noted that...
Alone in his dirty, untended Brooklyn apartment, Emory wrote his own mother in North Carolina: "I expect to be dead within a few hours ... All my love." Then he left to meet Norma and have it out with her and her lover at Whittaker's apartment. He took along a pistol...
...phone call to her mother in Hollywood was Norma's last desperate hope. But Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...
...second movement. Except for a few scattered parts, the writing throughout the Sonata is tight; the piece never seems too long for its contents. My only objection is to some of the bowing effects in the first movement, which don't really seem to belong. The performance by Norma Bertolami Sapp and Joseph Leibovici was extremely competent, although occasionally it seemed as though Mr. Leibovici were merely rattling off the violin part...
Born. To Rocky Graziano, 25, hammer-fisted hoodlum of boxing, world's middle weight champion (barred from most boxing rings), and Norma Levine Graziano, 22: their second child, second daughter; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Name: Roxee Lynn. Weight...