Word: shamus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philip, prosperity is just around the coroner. In Marlowe-an adaptation of Chandler's The Little Sister-he follows the spoor of a runaway brother who leaves ice picks in people's necks. On the trail, the shamus uncovers some California tourist attractions (Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno), some lethal gangsters, and the mandatory snide police lieutenant (Carroll O'Connor...
Married. Edward ("Kookie") Byrnes, 28, jive-talking junior shamus of TV's 77 Sunset Strip; and Alabama-born Cinema Starlet Asa Maynor, 24; at Beverly Hills' All Saints' Episcopal Church, with Sunset Strip Colleagues Roger Smith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as best man and usher...
Died. James Shamus ("Jimmy") Slattery, 56, stylish, lightning-quick "dancing master" of boxing from 192-1 to 1935, onetime light-heavyweight champion; of tuberculosis, which he had been fighting since the early 19405; in Buffalo, where he had worked in recent years tending roses in a public park...