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...contended, the racketeers spotted police around Barbara's place and promptly put together their common alibi; each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop in on ailing Pal Joe Barbara...
...engaged in a macabre watch. "Piaf suffers and refuses to capitulate," cried Paris-Journal. "Piaf falling like Moliere on the planks of the provincial coliseum*-that was worth the trip," blared the daily Libération. France-Dimanche quoted the singer herself: "When the door closes on my last pal, when I find myself once more alone at home, I want to die like an animal...
...father (a taxi driver) and her mother (a checker at Schrafft's) were separated; before Patty got her first TV roles, the family teetered on the edge of poverty. In Miracle Worker, it was Anne to whom Patty looked for approval; it was Anne who became her particular pal. Soon, says Arthur Penn, "Patty and Anne were carrying on conversations in the manual alphabet behind our backs, cracking jokes and having themselves a time...
Cuban Sculptor Joseph Dubronyi, who has hewn enough nudes to people a colony, was about to sue the estate of "a good pal," the late Cinemactor Errol Flynn, for $5,000. The unpaid-for art object: a goldplated, 18-in. reclining figure of Flynn's last protégée, lithe Nymphet Beverly ("Woodsie") Aadland, 17, in the breathtaking altogether...
Biggest seller among the high-priced toys is a $30, bright-eyed, 3-ft.-tall plastic doll built like a three-year-old girl. The Ideal Toy Corp.'s Patti Play Pal has surprised even its makers, who shipped 500,000 dolls, found her copied by at least six other makers selling their versions for as low as $7.99. The first big doll to really catch on, Patti owes her success to the industry's ability to make her light in weight (4¾Ibs.) and so lifelike that she can wear her owner's clothes. Other...