Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rita Hayworth, the fourth bride of Crooner Dick Haymes, was not quite right when she cried that her fourth groom was being "torn apart and crucified." Actually, like a sinewy Thanksgiving turkey, Dick was just being carved many ways. His second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, collected $2,650 for overdue support of their three children, claimed that Dick owed her $29,087 more. Internal revenuers were grabbing half of Dick's salary for unpaid income taxes; his agent continued to get the customary 10% slice; his creditors were cut in for their regular 20%. Dick was reported...
Sevim Tari is a young (28), pretty Turkish girl of good family. What makes her unusual in Turkey is that she is also a Communist. Daughter of a high-ranking Turkish police official now dead, she studied medicine in Turkey, attended the Sorbonne in Paris. Two years ago she got out of a taxi on Istanbul's waterfront and was about to board ship for Marseille when the political police grabbed her. On her person the cops found three monthly reports of clandestine Communist operations (Communism has long been barred in Russia-hating Turkey) and other incriminating documents. Sevim...
More suspects were brought in. According to the pre-trial testimony, Sevim Tari had been sent by Moscow from Paris to "guide" secret Communist operations in Turkey. They counted on her good social background to throw off suspicion. But she was so sure of herself that she failed to take adequate precautions. Said one of the cops: "She was a disaster for them, a godsend...
...before a three-man military tribunal in Ankara on charges of conspiring with the U.S.S.R. against Turkish security. Although Turkish law prescribes death for Communist leaders, it seemed likely that those convicted would get off with prison terms. Nevertheless, the police were satisfied that the main Communist apparatus in Turkey had been thoroughly smashed...
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