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...first prosecution witnesses, Police Reporter John Rutledge of the Dallas Morning News, testified that Ruby was "a loudmouthed extravert" who loved to strut wherever there was big action. Rutledge said that he saw Ruby at police headquarters at least three times on the night of Nov. 22, after Oswald had been arrested. Ruby was familiar with the place; he always liked to hang around with cops. Wielding pad and pencil, he had slipped past a police guard among surging newsmen. "He was explaining to members of the press from out of state who everybody was," said Rutledge. "Somebody would come...
...decolletage and then put them on display in countless films, are no longer in existence. We find that we have to do it on our own, and it "ain't easy." The T.N.T. is there, but the only explosions come from the frustrations of not being able to strut our stuff...
Carpetbaggers and copper barons rubbed elbows on verandas of the cavernous Grand Union and United States hotels; Eastern empire builders frittered away fortunes at chuck-a-luck and roulette. Diamond Jim Brady loved to strut down Broadway wearing 2,548 of his favorite gems, all at once. Lillian Russell ("that woman,"" Saratogians called her) pedaled around town on a gold-plated bike. E. Berry Wall, "the King of the Dudes," once changed clothes 40 times in one day to win a wager. And John ("Bet-a-Million") Gates was the talk of the town when...
Flouncing down to the footlights to sing Take Back Your Mink in a new Las Vegas production of Guys and Dolls was a Miss Adelaide whose show-pony strut, blinding blonde curls and 37-24-35 measurements have not changed since she was queen of the Fox lot in the '40s. Bouncy Betty Grable, 46, was back onstage for fun and profit-and besides, it was all so convenient. She and Bandleader Husband Harry James now live in Las Vegas ("I just report for the show at 8 and go home at n"), where she has been playing golf...
...very much the image of its deceptively easygoing editor. By newsroom standards, Bill Baggs, 40, makes an ideal boss. He keeps a brass cuspidor within reachable trajectory of his desk, shows visitors the bullet hole that some disgruntled subscriber drilled through his office window, and lets his staffers strut their stuff. "Hell. I don't have much to do," he says, and proves it by writing a daily column and occasional editorials, and by often accompanying his men on out-of-town assignments. "The best ideas that show up in the paper come from guys out in the newsroom...