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...name-dropping autobiography, R.S.V.P., fickle Party Girl Elsa Maxwell, 74, dropped lowest of all the name of Egypt's fat, fatuous ex-King Farouk: "My R.S.V.P. to an invitation to dine with Farouk [in 1950] was a telegram to his equerry which read, 'I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters.' I learned that Farouk screamed like a pig-what else?-when he saw the telegram." Farouk, always in need of money, slapped a $14,000 defamation-of-character suit on Elsa, who also has little money but seldom needs it. The hearing ended last...
...Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick heard that San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher was in New York telling the Giants' and the Dodgers' presidents how nice it would be to have the Giants in San Francisco when the Dodgers move to Los Angeles. Frick hastily sent a telegram to the Dodgers' Walter O'Malley saying that all talk of transfers "is harmful to baseball." So O'Malley went back to chattering about building a new stadium in Brooklyn, and the Giants' Horace Stoneham talked wistfully of staying in New York. But Mayor Christopher went...
LIKELY KO, forecast a sport-page banner line in the New York World-Telegram and Sun. And indeed, in the first three rounds the outcome seemed certain. The old man had nothing left. Sugar Ray Robinson was a cautious shuffler just two days shy of 37, and he two-stepped away from Gene Fullmer, the brawling, 25-year-old Mormon elder who had taken away his middleweight championship four months ago. At ringside in Chicago, the experts exchanged knowing nods: age had soured Sugar...
Secret Report. Goaded to an answer, Pearson fired off a telegram to the Gazette: "It is true that a report by an R.C.M.P. secret agent mentions Norman as a member of the Canadian Communist Party in 1940, and it is no doubt this report, which was forwarded by the R.C.M.P. in October 1950 to appropriate agencies, to which Blakely and [Senate Committee Counsel Robert] Morris refer...
...subsource" promptly identified himself as Pat Walsh, a onetime courier for the Communists who is now secretary of the Pan-Canadian Anti-Communist League. "Mistaken identity-rubbish," scoffed Walsh in an interview with the Toronto Telegram. "My report was the facts of the case. The second report [clearing NormanJ was the intervention of Pearson...