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...rumors that his engagement will be announced momentarily, the prince slyly eyed a school friend and asked: "Don't you think it's a bit too early for me to be tied down with a wife?" Onetime U.S. Vice Viceroy Charles ("Lucky") Luciano went to Rome to plead with bureaucrats for a cancellation of the curfew order that keeps him holed up in his Naples apartment from dusk to dawn (TIME, Nov. 29). After cooling his heels in a hall for five hours, Lucky had a ten-minute audience with Interior Ministry officials. He came out hopping...
Although the Nazis would not allow him to plead because he was a Jew, Hays appeared in court and helped to defend the Bulgarian Communist, Georgy Dimitrov, in the Reichstag fire trial, and much later he spoke up for the rights of Nazis in the German-American Bund. He got his biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business...
...well-known for his engaging smile, is admirably miscast as a struggling writer. All he can do is screw up his face a little more as each scene reaches new heights of emotional seriousness. By the grand climactic scene, when he goes to his dead wife's sister to plead for the return of his baby girl, the grimace has reached Hallowe'en proportions. "I gotta have 'er back," he pleads, "because she looks like Helen." Since Helen is played by Elizabeth Taylor, the suggestion is somewhat ludicrous...
...Court judge and Foreign Minister, whose passion to right all wrongs sometimes leads him to wrong the right, shaggy Herbert Evatt had never hit it off with his party's hornyhanded, mainly Catholic trade unionists in the big cities. His indiscriminate sympathy for the underdog led him to plead the case of martyred Cardinal Mindszenty before the U.N., but it also prompted Evatt to lead the opposition when Australia's ruling Liberal Party tried-and failed-to outlaw the Communists in 1951. Evatt's defense of the Reds, high-minded as it was. provoked a rumble...
...relieve Hinh. General Hinh received the Defense Secretary politely, but pointed out that the Secretary was not an officer but a law clerk with no military knowledge. When Chan tried to give orders, staff officers blandly pretended not to hear him. A chastened Premier Diem summoned Hinh to plead with him. For answe, Hinh pulled a batch of telegrams from his pocket from more than 2,000 officers, declaring: "We protest against the unfair measures taken against you. We recognize you as our only leader." Said Hinh: "Now, Mr. President, I cannot leave. I am morally a prisoner...