Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoffa's hoodlum business agents, Gus Zapas, forced Attorney David Probstein out as president of an Indianapolis cab company. Asked Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy of Betty Starrett, a former secretary in Probstein's office: "What did Zapas say to Probstein at that time?" Replied Witness Starrett: "He said to get out-and he speaks very colorfully." Question: "Did Zapas say anything about killing him?" Answer: "Yes, but he used that expression like I would say 'Hello.' " After talking to Zapas, Probstein went to St. Louis on a "business trip." He has not been seen since...
...remaining years of his life, Navyman Parsons had little to say of his fateful five hours. The years were few. One December night in 1953 Rear Admiral Parsons waked with sharp chest pain. He slipped silently downstairs in his Washington home, picked out to read Volume XI of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, methodically turned to the section marked Heart, Diseases of the. It was too late for Deke Parsons (52); he collapsed and died next...
...final say on bringing Sonnabend into Studebaker will have to come from the stockholders. To take on the diversification job, Sonnabend is asking for an option to buy 500,000 shares of Studebaker stock during the next five to ten years at 95% of the market value on the day of a merger, plus a place on the board...
...Reluctant Debutante (Avon; MGM) in its stage incarnation was the kind of drawing-room comedy that critics called "pleasant" for want of anything worse to say about it. But transferred to the screen and run through a high-speed Mixmaster of comic invention by Rex Harrison and Wife Kay (Les Girls) Kendall, this lukewarm cup of tea has been turned into cheery summer punch...
...might shake his personal conception of life ("His index was as rigorous as that of the Catholic Church"). In his sober and industrious periods, the mere thought of drink terrified him, and he would clutch Agnes, crying: "I have found my work, my peace, my joy . . . ! I will not say to you, my love, as a poet once said, that I will pluck the stars of heaven to hang them in your hair-I say to you there are no stars in heaven, unless I can hang them in your hair...