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...added a charge of disorderly conduct. A police court judge fined him $10 on each .charge. Under Kentucky law, Sam Thompson's case was closed-no fine under $20 can be appealed to another state court. But last week the U.S. Supreme Court reached-down to the lowest rung on the ladder of justice, set aside the fines by unanimously ruling that shuffling was no crime...
...first" to be informed after the royal family; a little later, a third announcement was pinned to the gates of Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. Throughout the kingdom, church bells pealed, and at Lloyd's the famed Lutine bell was rung twice to signal "good news" already known...
...feel," says Singer Diahann Carroll, "like I'm kind of at the bottom of the top; the best part of the beginning is now." Farther up the ladder roost more gaudily plumed stars of Singer Carroll's spotlighted world-Lena Home, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte. That last rung of the climb is sometimes the trickiest, as countless slipped disks will testify. But when she moved into the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel last week, Diahann trailed the kind of notices no new female singer has received in years. Twice each night she demonstrated...
Admittedly, it was an extreme rarity that Dilworth Waterby should even consider arising for Sunday breakfast. In fact, Dilworth had not seen a Sunday morning, a real one, since that unfortunate day in his freshman year when the Lowell House bells had accidentally rung three hours early...
...roaches and call girls. The last big spender was a happy drunk from Kansas City who made his fortune turning out horror pictures for the kiddies. For months last year, all drinks served in the Garden bar were put on his tab, and eventually he broke the record rung up by Benchley and his pals...