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...preposterous Moscow tale, a careful Russian plan was drawn up to ship the missiles to Cuba without secrecy, install them without camouflage. When Kennedy got word, he would make a fuss, presumably demand negotiations, in which the Russians would be able to extract a no-invasion guarantee for their pal Fidel...
...reason came from Hearst Gossip Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini), who used to mention Gilbert frequently, and whose public relations firm had handled E. L. Bruce. Cassini lost at least $30,000 himself in Gilbert's crash and then committed the calumny of calling his oldtime pal "a crook." After a Park Avenue stroll with a pipe-puffing Gilbert last week, Cholly chronicled all. "Eddie said he 'couldn't let down' his parents, his wife and children, his friends and all those who believed in him. 'I also wanted...
...didn't), cultivated a voodoo priest ordained in spirit vibrations, and passed one weekend with Novelist John Dos Passes discussing the works of Daphne du Maurier because Gilbert had recently read her but never Dos Passes. Each day Gilbert studied the Wall Street Journal, which a thoughtful pal in New York sent down...
...know that Marx was a Cuban." When Rumania's Communist leaders came through town, Khrushchev took them to a 3¾-hour performance of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theater, where he loudly applauded U.S. Basso Jerome Hines. Afterward Khrushchev jovially raised a glass as his pal First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan offered toasts in champagne to culture and, smiling at the singer's pretty wife, to American women. "May God bless you," responded Basso Hines, still decked out in the Czarist garb he wore for his role...
Terror at the Bar. Rogers shocked his profession by defending anybody who asked for help, guilty or not. His clients were usually up for murder, but he also defended policemen about to be sacked, prostitutes faced with deportation, and an old pal plainly guilty of defrauding a bank. After one acquittal, Rogers snarled to his client, who came to thank him: "Get away from me, you slimy pimp; you're guilty as hell...