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According to friends, Fanne formerly performed at the Silver Slipper, a sleazy Washington nightclub shoehorned between a pornographic bookstore and a pornographic theater. On the club's window are photos of scantily clad women in provocative poses and a sign promising AN EXTRAVAGANZA OF BEAUTIFUL, CURVACEOUS GIRLS. Inside, dancers shake to the heavy beat of music thundering from amplifiers and strip to their G strings, as B-girls cadge $2.75 drinks from male customers...
Soon after she met Mills at the Silver Slipper in July 1973, Fanne gave up her $500-a-week job and now has no visible means of support. That August, Mills and his wife Polly moved into an apartment in Fanne's luxury building, the Crystal Towers in Arlington, Va. According to club employees, Mills, usually with Fanne, visited the Silver Slipper about twice a month, where they sat at a small table near an emergency fire exit. Sometimes he ordered magnums of champagne for Fanne and drinks for the house, rarely less than $100 worth in a single evening...
...Alfred Tetzlaff is the hero of West Germany's hottest new situation comedy. He is a first cousin to both All in the Family's Archie Bunker and his relative, Alf Garnett of the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. Herr Tetzlaff is a slobbish, slipper-shod metalworker. Married to an addled blonde whom he calls "dumb cow," he has a jeans-wearing daughter and a liberal son-in-law. He deplores long hair, beards and miniskirts, surefire signs of Germany's moral decline. He also dislikes almost everybody, especially foreign laborers, Slavs (Russians...
...very late one Friday in the frightful winter of the year 19-. Holmes was filling his pipe with the noxious tobacco he kept in a slipper upon the mantel. I sat by the gasogene, trying to ignore the chill worrying my old Jezail bullet wound. It was not a very keen period for the world's first consulting detective; like all Englishmen, he only worked a three-day week. We could get little fuel, and warmed ourselves by burning pictures of coal from newsmagazine accounts of the miners' strike. Suddenly there came peremptory knocking at the door...
...charming as well. At 20, Bill Thoresen was also something of a cutup. He already had a record for shoplifting violations and assault-and-battery arrests. But, as Louise explains in her account of the twelve years she spent trying to wear William's dangerously cracked glass slipper, "He made my life exciting, and he needed...