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...Kill Her?" Slim, graceful Susan Hayes dressed carefully for her appearance. She wore a black wool dress with a prim white collar; she used very little makeup. She was the 31st witness against Sam Sheppard. and her testimony was supposed to supply the motive...
...Democratic headquarters, for example, is listed on Bowdoin Street, which as it turned out, is a tricky way of saying nothing. At their central office a circling staircase led to a series of small signs promising political information just ahead. Inside the room numerous papers were cluttered about two prim ladies who were methodically dampening stamps...
Herr Oskar Altmann, a stiff-backed Prussian of the old school, and his wife were prim and proper Berliners who suffered privation in silence but protested peevishly against such innovations as lipstick and slacks, which they thought "incorrect." Elder son Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped...
...worthy of admission. He fails; she dances away and lets him fall, and a jury of humans, sitting outside the gates, exits in disgust at the rejection of its fair-haired boy. Char should have given his jury further development. It seems to represent the repressed sensuality of prim, proper humans, yet other intepretations are equally plausible...
Anna Maria Caglio is an aristocrat, the kind of girl whom Via Véneto doormen automatically salute. Daughter of a well-to-do Milan attorney, she was educated in prim Swiss schools, went to Rome when she was 20, hoping to break into the theater or the movies. She had little success, but she became a part of the highest-living, fastest-traveling Roman set. The most dashing of them all was the Marchese Ugo Montagna. Soon Anna Maria was his acknowledged mistress, accepting an $800-a-month allowance and living with him openly. But last summer Ugo threw...