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...servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis. For 90 minutes, he played the banjo and trumpet, sang soul songs and Danke Schön, danced and winked. Said one Wisconsin vet: "I wouldn't have picked Wayne Newton. But I don't know why we're here either...
Librie says Weinstein has "a penchant for doing things everyone else wants to do but doesn't have the guts to go through with." Still, it would be wrong to assume Weinstein's comedy is an all-out assault on taste. The philosophy major also plays trumpet for the marching band and does an occasional stand-up comedy routine that would probably get by even the most stringent censors...
...divorce action. So far Pulitzer or his witnesses have testified that Roxanne, 31, went to bed with a local real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver, the beautiful young wife of a handsome old Kleenex heir, an alleged drug dealer and a supernatural trumpet. That's right, trumpet. There are charges of drug use. And menages a trois. And incest. And death threats. "It doesn't sound very American or normal," admits a rich young acquaintance of the Pulitzers, a Palm Beach resident for more than 20 years. "But it's Palm Beach...
...Peter was "being used unfairly by his wife," and in court last week Nelson described in detail Roxanne's sexual profligacy. Nelson assisted Roxanne is running periodic bedroom seances involving a dozen or more Pulitzer friends. On the foot of the bed were a black cape and a trumpet. Roxanne explained in court that she was hoping "the dead would speak to the living through the trumpet." Said Peter of the occult sessions: "I don't believe in spirit voices. I was kicked out for falling asleep." Judge Harper reluctantly allowed the trumpet to be admitted as evidance...
...College, Cullinane had studied applied mathematics and computer sciences. He had traveled to Berlin in 1978 as a trumpet player in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...