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Landing in Manhattan after a seven-month European concert tour, Peru's multi-octaved Singer Yma Sumac, with her son Charles, 5, in tow, bumped smack into immigration officials who detained her at the pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the "professional jealousy...
...Matthews, his managerial masterpiece, to New York to see him flattened by Rocky Marciano, and home to Seattle to watch him taking a licking from British Heavyweight Champion Don Cockell. A lesser man might have given up. Hurley was undaunted. Last month he arrived in London with Matthews in tow, and announced with infinite gall that his tabby could knock over Cockell...
...bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Tablehoppers, a newly opened Hollywood saloon for members only. One of the founding Tablehoppers. Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest...
With some 30 newsmen and photographers in tow, Zsa Zsa, got up in a man-killing black ensemble, glided into a flossy Montparnasse bistro and cornered her pomaded prey. As the cameras converged on him, Rubirosa snarled at the photographers: "You'll not take any pictures of me with Miss Gabor." Actress Gabor, making the most of a big emotional scene, quietly began to cry. Unmoved, Rubirosa curled his lip and told her: "Get out! I don't need you!" Zsa Zsa went-by taxi straight to Rubirosa's Paris home, where she was a house guest...
Continuous Performances. In Detroit, asking police for help, George Van Kula reported that an anonymous prankster had 1) directed to his address two coal trucks, four TV repairmen, two florists, six milkmen, a plumber, a veterinarian, two tow trucks, two exterminators, 2) advertised in the Detroit News that his apartment was for rent, cheap; 3) inserted a want ad stating that Van Kula needed a "dandy man, good wages...