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...slimed its way back out the door, it turned and snarled, "You callous political schemer...you devious turncoat, that'll teach you to meddle in council politics." Standing amidst the remnants of my lunch and the smell of stale beer, I realized that in expressing my opinion on the divestment issue, I had unwittingly become an accomplice in a council coup d'etat...
...Bulow were married in a small ceremony in New York City. If the defendant was aware of the irony, he did not show it. While his lawyer depicted him as a callous philanderer but not a murderous one, and the prosecution made him out to be a homicidal schemer, Claus von Bulow, his wedding ring as ever on his left hand, maintained an attitude of intense if slightly distant interest. Afterward, the jury of eight men and four women filed out of the courtroom to begin deliberations on whether he had twice attempted to murder his wife with insulin injections...
...minutes later, midfield schemer Paul Nicholas set up the second Crimson goal. The Scotsman found a seam in the Bruin defense, dribbled down near the end line, and pulled a pass back into the middle to the waiting right foot of an unmarked Catliff. who banged...
DIED. Virginia Bruce, 71, willowy, ash-blond actress of the '30s and '40s who played opposite such leading men as Robert Taylor, Fredric March and Melvyn Douglas; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Often cast as a glamorous schemer, Bruce scored an early triumph in 1932 as an adulterous maid who shared her favors with villainous Chauffeur John Gilbert in Downstairs (she married him the same year). A veteran of 55 films, Bruce is best remembered for her portrayal of a chorus girl in The Great Ziegfeld...
...witty, zealous subject is a pioneer, "the first" cutting her way through a man's world that most women were scared even to enter." As to what she is not-including the "bitch" her enemies accused her of being-Sheed is less sure. She is not "a heartless schemer," she is not a "cold climber." Certainly she is not just "Luce's woman." In the end, all he can do is shrug and quote his subject: " 'Do not defend me' is almost her heraldic motto, and I'll do my best...