Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer night a year ago, Jimmie Wilson, some moonshine under his belt, went to the back door of the home of Mrs. Estelle Barker, an elderly widow, in the dusty little town of Marion. As Wilson told it, he asked her to pay him in advance for some yard work he was supposed to do for her later that week, and she gave him some money. But as Estelle Barker, a white woman, told the story, Wilson threatened her into giving him money. And after he pocketed the $1.95, she said, he grabbed her and tried to ravish...
...Batista at the Oriental Park race track near Havana one afternoon in 1939, struck up a friendship by striking a match for the dictator's cigar. The two got to know each other better during fishing expeditions and at parties in a house they shared in a seacoast town 27 miles outside of Havana...
Then Frank ("Lover Boy") Sinatra, the picture's hero, lounged into town trailed by a variegated crew of camp followers that included Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, a couple of casual redheads, and a court jester named Mack ("Killer") Gray. Less than a day later, love began to die between Metro and Madison...
Lost Weekend. Frankie Boy started the week by taking his pals up the river to the wide-open town of Newport, Ky. They ate dinner there, watched a floor show, shot craps, played blackjack, tanked up and sluiced back to their rented Madison home at 3:30 a.m. The day's work was scheduled to start grinding at 6:30, and Frankie wobbled to the set on time. The script called for its hero to arrive in town by bus, and half of Madison lined the streets waving and cheering. Frankie appeared to be returning the greetings, smiling through...
That night Lover Boy and his pals continued their short trip to a lost weekend. Next day, none of them was in shape to observe the niceties of small-town life. Frankie wandered into a bar, set them up for the house, then took his own beer outside. By the time he learned that carting drinks from place to place is illegal in Madison, the damage was done. "I teach Sunday School," said one distressed citizen. "There are a lot of Methodists here. What a terrible example that man set for our children...