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Next night Fenton arranged another boat trip to "a very unusual nightclub" that he was sure his friends would enjoy. This time he brought along Daniel Rios, a waiter at their hotel. On the way, as the old couple sat restfully in the stern of the boat, the waiter and the travel agent stepped back to chat. Just as the tourists looked up, they were attacked and beaten to death with a baseball bat and a length of chain. The guests were stripped of money and about $18,000 in jewels, their bodies wrapped in chains. Then the hosts dumped...
...tree on a lonely beach. Questioned, he claimed steadfastly that he had hardly known the vacationers, said that as far as he remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that two bodies had been washed ashore 100 miles north of Acapulco...
...travel abroad, poured out of Arabia and into the gay spots of the Middle East. Soon the Middle East seethed with stories of their excesses. Nearly every Cairo nightclub had its Saudi prince surrounded by procurers and willing belly dancers. There were stories of a $15 tip given a waiter for a box of matches, of girls getting diamond rings just by admiring them, of a drunken Saudi prince staggering into an "exclusive Egyptian club shouting: "Pigs, stand up in the presence of a prince of the royal house of Saud...
...mornings a week by 7 o'clock, reads the Washington Post and Times Herald and the New York Times in his official limousine (a perquisite of his position as minority leader) on his way to the Capitol. The Senate restaurant normally opens at 8:15, but one waiter comes regularly at 8 to serve Knowland his orange juice, eggs, toast and coffee. It is always a working breakfast, once a week with White House Legislative Aide Jerry Persons, other mornings with Cabinet officers or sleepy-eyed Senators. Then, with the giant stride that often forces his companions...
...when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing." Hughes had been a long time getting through college. He graduated in 1929, and had worked in a hat store, on a truck farm, in a flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided to go to Haiti for a while...