Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cliff Bennett (who refused, without offering legal grounds, to answer questions) had come up $500 short in his accounts and had said, "Well, I gave it to Terry Schrunk." A hat-check girl in the 8212 Club recalled that Bennett, after talking to Schrunk on the night of the raid, asked her for a Manila envelope. Another club employee testified that he had seen Bennett count out "what I presumed was $500, and put it in a brown envelope...
...Portland policemen standing outside the club during the raid said they had seen Bennett and Schrunk conferring. Then, they said, Bennett walked across the street and "put something down" behind a telephone pole. A few minutes later Schrunk went over to the same pole and "picked up a package." Still another witness, who had been hanging around the club seeking a job as bartender that night, said that what Schrunk picked up was a Manila envelope...
...colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou En-lai and Nehru at Bandung. Then, in September 1955, he suddenly announced that Egypt had made a deal for large amounts of Czech arms. He offered his habitual explanation: he was forced into it. Israel's massive Gaza raid earlier in the year, he explained, had convinced him that Egypt must have arms to defend itself, and the U.S. refused to provide them. It was just a commercial transaction, he said. Wary now, but still hopeful, the U.S. made a counterbid for Nasser's favor, offered to help...
Jaded Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 62, creaked into Manhattan from his suburban sanctuary to attend the wedding of his most recent (ninth) exwife, sometime Burlesqueen Anita Roddy-Eden, 34, and India-born Cinemactor John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life-a wedding...
Chest a Bust. Another private eye told a story of going with Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra, on Nov. 5, 1954. to raid a building where Marilyn Monroe was spending the night (they broke into the wrong apartment). The detective's report, stolen or sold from the files, matched in every detail a leering account of the fiasco in the September 1955 issue of Confidential. (Also called. Sinatra denied under oath that he had participated in the actual raid.) Hollywood brass was so worried by the peephole press, said a third private eye, that major studios once considered raising...