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...voyages were punctuated by Homeric booze-feats ashore, a slum-bum stretch when he lived at Jimmy the Priest's saloon in Manhattan and slept on the hickory-topped tables, too broke to pay $3 a month for a room. At 24, hospitalized with a mild case of tuberculosis, he began to think about writing plays. Primed on Ibsen and Strindberg, he enrolled in Professor George Pierce Baker's famed 47-Workshop at Harvard. His first published play, The Web, was set in a squalid boardinghouse. Its three main characters (not counting an illegitimate baby in the cradle...
...himself to carry out his complicated plan. Now, with achievement, his character betrayed him. He and Bonnie drove 240 miles east to St. Louis and rented an apartment. Both promptly got drunk. They fought, and Hall, after battering Bonnie's face, walked out. He went to a saloon and watched the sixth game of the World Series on television. He left behind a wrapper for a $2,000 packet of the ransom money. A barfly picked it up, looked at the figure, dropped it back on the floor...
...Kern County High School, he played clarinet in the school band and outfield on the baseball team. At the University of California, he was full of fun but not of diligence. He was a popular member of the Gun Club, which headquartered at Pop Kessler's saloon, and he flunked second-year Greek. He graduated from the university's law school...
...sickly Aston Martin Ltd., and began designing, in 1947, the sleek, swift "DB" (for David Brown) sports cars, which were soon winning many a British and European trophy. Brown turned each year's racing model into the following year's production model, also produced a luxurious, saloon-type car (the Lagonda). Although production is limited (about ten a week) and the cars are virtually handmade, they have earned Brown plenty of prestige and some profits. This year his DB3 latest racers have won six out of eight races, including England's premier race, the T.T. (for Tourist...
...fashioned Rolls-Royce and brought the woman driver to a stop. What, one of the officers asked, was that bundle on the floor? The answer: "Old clothes for the Salvation Army." But the bundle actually contained the body of Lincoln Williams, handsome Negro bartender of the Last Chance Saloon, punctured by two .45 slugs fired at close range. The lady in the car-and she obviously was a lady-was Mrs. Treadway, the richest woman in town. Captain Sheffield, respectable broker and her son-in-law, sat beside...