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Eliot dominated the upperclass tournament with six men in the finals. The Elephants Bill Shoeberlein and Sid Tyler faced each other in the 147 pound class, and Noel Scullion and Pete Saurian met in the 177 pound competition. Frank Lombardi at 137 pounds, and Whitey Black, in the unlimited division, both pinned their men, to make it a perfect evening for the Elephants...
...more happily than ever before. He spent two days shooting Walking My Baby Back Home, took three days off to put together this week's Comedy Hour (he revised all the dances in the show, wrote part of the skits, ad-libbed additions to his routine with Sid Miller, and sang a ballad, Dreaming, for which he wrote the music and Miller the words). In spare moments throughout the week, he met with his associates in Donald O'Connor Enterprises, Inc., dozed through the Hollywood premiere of Call Me Madam ("After all, I'd seen the show...
...authored by onetime Stooge Sid Silvers, the picture affords a few good glimpses of behind-the-scenes vaudeville activities. It also gives Dean Martin a chance to croon some pleasant tunes (With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Yours) of the two-a-day vaudeville era. But The Stooge is at its best when it ditches its plot and gives toothy Comic Lewis a chance at his uninhibited mugging, e.g., bashfully kissing a girl for the first time, getting impossibly drunk, wrestling with a fold-up washbasin in a railroad sleeping...
...leader of the pirates, said the prosecution, was one Elliot Burt Forrest, 29, Bronx-born operator of a Tangier nightclub and now a fugitive from justice. But the brains behind the exploit was Nylon Sid, who was lurking in Marseille waiting to dispose of the loot when the Esme's crew was captured. Spanish cops nabbed Nylon Sid when he skipped to Madrid; last week he faced trial before a U.S. consular court in the internationalized port of Tangier...
...Nylon Sid insisted that he and Forrest had chartered the Esme to do a "salvage job" off Malta; anything else that happened was all Forrest's doing because Nylon Sid wasn't there. Besides, said his lawyer, "this is the season of 'Peace on earth, good will to all men.'" U.S. Consular Judge Milton J. Helmick was unmoved; he found Nylon Sid guilty and sentenced him to three years in prison. Nylon Sid -would be allowed out on appeal, said the judge, if he would put up as bail $10,000 and his cream-colored Cadillac...