Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boxer-turned-Painter William Grant Sherry, 35, who last fall managed to patch up a loudly publicized spat with his cinemactress wife Bette Davis, 42> was in trouble again. Sherry had noisily broken up a party at the RKO studio, where the cast of The Story of a Divorce had just presented Actress Davis with a monstrous trophy for being "a good egg" (see cut). When he heard that his didoes had prompted highstrung Bette to resume divorce proceedings, the ex-pug unburdened himself to the press: "I'm tired of being pushed around. She was the breadwinner...
...small clearing the expedition found three deserted straw shacks. On a table in one rested a freshly cut papaya. In another coolie clothes hung on a peg. Chickens scratched in a tiny garden patch. As they pulled away, the French tossed a grenade into a frail native dugout on the riverbank; it disappeared in an upheaval of water and swamp hyacinth. "It's hard on people who live here," explained an officer, "but if we leave their craft, the Viet Minh use them for moving ammunition and supplies. Small boats are the transport of this battle ground...
Mechanic's Clue. In Bristol, England, George Law recognized an auto stolen from him three years before, despite fake engine and chassis numbers and a new paint job, proved his ownership by pointing out a piece of chewing gum he had once used to patch an oil leak...
Oswald replied, "Help, ho, murder, murder," but it wasn't even suicide. Temple finished the performance after a quick patch from a doctor in the audience and then went to the hospital for six stitches...
...recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial junket last year (with a senatorial subcommittee of which he was not even a member) that a Washington correspondent began his story: "Senator...