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Peggy's story was worth one line in a gossip column until the News went to work on it: a stranger had planted kisses on Peggy Joyce's shoulder, proposed to her, and had been knocked cold by her escort, Comedian Joey Adams. Methodically, Legman David Charnay tracked down all hands, helped them say quotable things...
...Stranger to Mexico...
Shapley also announced plans to attend a meeting of the Latin-American Club of the Scientific Society of America, in his capacity as president of the organization. No stranger to scientific congresses in Mexico, he has previously conducted one on astronomy and one on physics in the country...
...angry editorial, the nearby Hudson Dispatch declared that a "friendless, helpless stranger" had been jailed for a very poor reason: withholding her identity. Manhattan papers took up the cry. Attorney James A. Major of the American Civil Liberties Union demanded that she be given a new trial. Offers of money, clothes and jobs poured in. The clamor got too loud for the sensitive ears of judge and prosecutor...
...stranger was Achille Murat, son of King Joachim of Naples, and nephew of Napoleon. His father had already died before a firing squad, his uncle had been banished to St. Helena, when Murat applied for U.S. citizenship, and settled in the Territory of Florida. He drank steadily until his death at 46, speculated heavily, sired a number of mulatto Murats, married a great-grandniece of George Washington. Usually embarrassed for funds, he was once arrested on a charge of cattle stealing. But he was also sober citizen enough to be admitted to the Florida bar and to dabble in Florida...