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...night of his death Rubinstein turned up at Nino's La Rue, a sleek supper club where he habitually dined, with a new girl friend, Estelle Gardner, a bosomy, cosmetics salesgirl. The two sipped martinis and pink champagne for a while, dined and danced, and left about 12:30 for a nightcap at Serge's mansion. In Rubinstein's third-floor suite. Estelle waited while he made several attempts to get Patricia Wray, another friend, on the telephone...
...five seconds. Some girls give you everything they've got at once, and there it is-there is no more. But Grace is like a kaleidoscope: one twist, and you get a whole new facet." Under Hitchcock's expert direction, Grace bloomed in Rear Window. As a sleek young career girl, she distilled a tingling essence of what Hitchcock has called "sexual elegance." She was learning her trade. The way she walked, spoke and combed her hair had a sureness that gives moviegoers a comfortable feeling: she would never make them wince with some awkwardness of misplaced gaucherie...
Carrot controls several jet squadrons on 24-hour alert, plus National Guard augmentation units. The alert squadrons, like others throughout the U.S., scramble three or four times a day. Their sleek interceptors are always armed, fueled and ready to roll, with the lead pair parked on the take-off strip and two more right behind. As at every air-defense base, restless jet pilots are always waiting in the ready shack for the buzzer-the loud rasping signal to scramble. "It sounds pretty awful," said one Kirtland pilot to a newsman sharing his vigil, "after you've been here...
...sleek, black colt looked like a winner. Highbred and proud, Landau moved out of the paddock under the royal purple, gold and scarlet silks of his owner, Queen Elizabeth II. But his reputation had preceded him to the U.S. Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the third running of the Washington, D.C. International knew the skittish three-year-old as a notorious equine neurotic. Balky as a kid who always refuses to perform for company, he had an exasperating habit of quitting in a close stretch drive...
...replace Carr, Chairman McCarthy picked sleek, swarthy James Juliana, 32, who took the blame during the hearings for the cropped photo of Private Dave Schine and Army Secretary Bob Stevens...