Word: shiv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen along a beaten path that carefully skirted Communist Chinese troops fighting on India's border, a do-or-die stand by Khamba tribesmen in western Tibet. Even when the opportunity for independent sightseeing presented itself, the newsmen turned away; no one interviewed India's Consul General Shiv Lai Chhiber, spotted in a Lhasa rug shop, because, as one correspondent explained: "Our main interest was in social reforms...
...chronic boudoir skulker and chronicler of overcrowded love nests, the juicy tidbit was irresistible. For sale by Freelance Reporter Lee Benson: the ghosted lament of auburn-haired, toothsome Jane Buckingham, 23, on-and-off model and nightclub hostess, who declared that she had reigned in the heart of Prince Shiv of Palitana until dethroned fortnight ago by another of Shiv's girls, slinky Hungarian Actress Eva Bartok...
Even by Sketch's dustbin standards, this was not much of a story. Shiv, an Indian maharajah's son, is a bush-league playboy-not, say, in Porfirio Rubirosa's class. Jane was an insatiable romanticist who could, if need be, wriggle through a love affair in five minutes. What's more, she had a husband and two-year-old daughter in the West Indies, where she had left them nearly two years...
Sketch bought anyway, visualizing the journalistic impact of Jane's thighs and sighs ("Shiv is mine! I won't let her take him away from me"). The editors packed her, Reporter Benson, a photographer and a staff sob sister onto the next plane to Naples, to confront the unsuspecting Shiv. Twenty-three thousand feet over Anzio, Italy, minutes short of Naples, the Viscount bearing Jane and company and 22 other passengers was rammed by an Italian air force jet. Dead with all the rest: the Sketch four, in pursuit of an essentially phony story...
...organizer eventually gets the shiv in a manner viciously reminiscent of the death of I.L.G.W.U.'s William Lurye in 1949, and after a while the dress manufacturer cops it too. That leaves only the manufacturer's son (Kerwin Mathews), a superslick young article who hoodwinks the hoods and apparently manages with unseemly haste to inherit the organizer's widow along with his father's business...