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...Washington, D.C., plainclothes policewoman contended that Louisiana Democratic Congressman Joe Waggon-ner Jr. drove up in his car and offered to pay her $50 for an oral sex act. Utah Democratic Congressman Allan Howe allegedly approached two Salt Lake City police decoy prostitutes and promised them $20 if they would show him "a little fun" at their place. Former Judge (and failed Nixon Supreme Court nominee) G. Harrold Carswell has been indicted on charges of making advances to a vice-squad policeman in Tallahassee, Fla. Dallas police have accused ex-Army Major General (and right-wing activist) Edwin Walker...
...were called and told that they had half an hour to get on over to the White House if they wanted to come along. In another 45 minutes, Air Force One took off with Johnson, Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long, Representatives Hale Boggs, Otto Passman, James Morrison, Joe Waggon-ner Jr. and Edwin Willis...
They started to cut Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon (valued at $450,000) and Van Dyck's Daedalus and Icarus from their frames and then abandoned them. Though both are relatively low-rated by today's art buyers, the thieves probably were not exercising esthetic discrimination. For one thing, they had time to pilfer $40 from a cashbox, proving their main interest to be monetary. For another, they left a Tintoretto, another Renoir and a Degas untouched...
...fact, quite frightening. All of them are brought together by a common desire; they want to get married. Since no one on the Eastern seaboard is interested in marrying them, they head out West to take what they can get. Westward the Women is their mule and waggon safari to California. They start off with Robert Taylor and a bunch of cowboys for protection. As things turn out, the cowboys need more protection than the women. Taylor warns his boys to "stay away from the wimin," and he shoots a few offenders to prove he means it. The women...
...Psalm Book, first book published In the U.S. ($151,000), the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland ($50,000), and a lock of George Washington's hair. His biggest sale was in 1928, when Lord Duveen, British dealer and collector, paid $360,000 for Gainsborough's The Harvest Waggon. That auction, from the estate of U.S. Steel's Judge Elbert Gary, brought a whopping $2.3 million, the alltime U.S. record...