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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over club dining room at a society place called Tucker's Town, on the island of Bermuda, tiny flags of the U.S., Britain and France stood at the center of a round cedar table. Outside stood stiff-backed soldiers of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. At the exclusive but rundown Mid-Ocean Club, notice was posted: "Passes will not be required from the following...
Nearly two years after he accused his wife Zsa Zsa Gabor of discarding him "like a squeezed lemon," Cinemactor George (Call Me Madam) Sanders sued for divorce. He charged that, among other things, Zsa Zsa had left him "in a rundown condition." When she heard about the suit, Zsa Zsa cried: "George never bought a ticket or paid a hotel bill. He used my car, my house. This man didn't buy one hat for me ... I didn't even got an engagement ring . . . I'm a nice lady...
...bedside table at a rundown Cleveland rooming house, a friendless old woman scrawled a note just before she died: "The only thing I own is my dog. Please take it to the Press. Ask them to find a home for it. I know the home they find will be a good one." Such confidence in the Cleveland Press (circ. 310,858) is neither misplaced nor unusual. Seven out of every ten people in the Cleveland area, boasts the Press, read the paper. Politicians curry its favor, mothers raise children from booklets on child care supplied by the Press, teen-agers...
Shocked. Gravel-voiced Lionel Stander, long type-cast by the movies as the rundown heel, strode into the hearing room with two luscious blondes and a lawyer, demanded that the television lights (for films, not live TV) be turned off. "I appear on television for entertainment or philanthropic purposes only, and this is neither," he rasped...
...estimates, no more than 1,400 Negroes ever belonged to the Communist Party at one time. Dr. Carlton Goodlett, young San Francisco Negro leader, gives these reasons: "More than anyone else, the Negro believes in the American opportunity to better himself. The Communist he sees as a rundown, underprivileged guy. The Negro just isn't interested in the underdog role. Secondly, he has learned to believe in the right to protest. People like myself, always protesting against injustice, wouldn't last ten seconds in Russia. Also, no single group in this country believes more strongly in God and the hereafter...