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...married Dennis Hamilton Gittins, an engineer, and bought a secondhand Rolls Royce ("A Rolls gives a girl such confidence"). She also began showing a remarkable talent for grabbing publicity. When she was hauled into court for nonpayment of rent, the judge noted that she was a minor and ruled: "It is the duty of the court to protect infants." A big-circulation Sunday paper printed a huge picture of Diana in scanties, headlined: JUDGE SAYS THIS BABY NEEDS PROTECTION...
When Thomas Lambard Robinson got out of the Navy ten years ago, he had a secondhand Dodge, $20,000 in savings and a burning ambition to own a daily newspaper. On a tour of the U.S. looking for a likely buy, he decided on the Charlotte (N.C.) News, which then had a circulation of 53,837 and was the largest afternoon daily in the Carolinas. The price was high, upwards...
...agers left Philadelphia with Wilderness Camp, a summertime hike-and-climb outfit. Led by Oliver D. Dickerson, 29, a University of Pennsylvania instructor, and William Oeser, 29, a Baltimore schoolteacher, the Wilderness Campers (at $270 a head) drove out West in a Ford station wagon and a made-over secondhand hearse, stopped in Montana's Glacier Park, then moved on to Banff, 85 miles west of Calgary, for high adventure in the Canadian Rockies...
...Scared." When Defendant Flaherty took the stand, he pointed out that he had gone no farther than other sportswriters. But his vivid account of the scene in the dressing room was secondhand; he had not visited the dressing room. Flaherty's lawyers read a deposition from Ex-Champion Joe Louis, who said: "It seemed Nova was scared." How could Louis tell? "Well," he answered, "you look another fighter in the face and you know whether he's afraid from whether he looks...
...said to Evangelist Graham: "Excuse me, sir-my father loves animals, and I hope you will pray for them in your service." Billy's reported reply: "Now you trot home and tell your daddy that my job is saving human souls. I have no time for animals."* This secondhand duologue was greeted at the league's annual meeting in London with teeth-gnashing and wails of "shame!" One incensed lady shouted: "Billy Graham belongs to the jungle." Said League Secretary J. C. Sharp: "Animals are God's creatures, too. They are cruelly ill-treated by people...