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...plot was tailor-made: two Navy veterans, cruising the Caribbean in a 75-foot yacht, acquired a sloe-eyed little belly dancer from Toledo. Her name was Patricia Schmidt, but she had wiggled her way along the honky-tonk circuit from Chicago to Trinidad as "Satira." When she moved aboard, to share Mee's cabin, his pal Charles Jackson obligingly moved to another. One day Mee told her to pack up; his wife was coming down from Chicago. They fought, Patricia shot Mee, and a few days later he died...
Meanwhile, Aléman traveled all over the country meeting people and making friends. He went to Hollywood, loved the girls, won the hearts of Hollywood's party-lovers. They called him "Mike." Aléman today wears suits made by Oviatt's of Beverly Hills, tailor to the movie trade...
...costs and subtracting from the Network's bank balance, they wondered how lucky they were after all. On May 11, 1945, WHCN vacated its Holyoke Street offices in time to save its equipment from the wreckers. The University made available quarters in Dudley Hall, where the Network has tailor-made its studios and recording rooms and now awaits only a Student Activities Center to go on to better things...
Hanan does not need to tailor his U.S. strips to U.S. taste. His idol is the New Yorker's James Thurber, and Louie bears a spiritual resemblance to Thurber's ineffectual heroes. Above all Hanan hates Superman; he considers Louie a sort of anti-Superman...
...plushy terrace apartment on fashionable East 64th Street. Its built-in bar (for guests; Durocher seldom touches liquor) has stools made of catcher's mitts on baseball bats. Leo has a passion for racy autos, fancy ties and $175 suits made by Cinemactor George Raft's tailor...