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Long after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
...neighbors, who used to watch dapper little James ("Occo") Tamer mowing his front lawn, didn't suspect that he was an ex-gunman and bank robber. The Detroit police knew. What's more, they had a pretty good idea that velvet-voiced little Jimmy (out of prison on parole) was Detroit's public enemy No.1-resident boss of the city's dope smugglers, policy operators, syndicate thieves (specializing in furs and jewelry) and bookmaking ring. He wasn't the kind of man who could do it all on his own: he was, the police were convinced...
Playwright Franken has a pretty good eye for all the detail of middle-class family life-the rich son, the poor son; the huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...
Huxley, beginning to breathe hard, offered the Macbeth tag, Sleep No More. When U-I still wasn't satisfied, he gave up. Then the studio went to work on the problem. How about The Unguarded Heart? Huxley winced. How about Art of Murder? Huxley shuddered. Or Black Velvet? Huxley beat his temples. Well, then: Vengeance? Or Woman of Vengeance? Huxley's wife tried to calm him down. All right, A Woman's Vengeance...
...Lean, velvet-voiced Eric Sevareid quit as CBS's Washington bureau chief to give full time to newscasting, and tossed a few hard words over his shoulder: "Radio reporting is superficial [and] sloppy. The stream runs purer than in newspaper reporting but not so deep. Radio reporters . . . know that they won't be able to use more than a few lines in most stories [so] they quit digging. I think I'd be happier writing for print...