Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oregon state police and liquor agents swooped down on 100 taverns and roadhouses in Clackamas County one night last week, confiscated 115 gambling devices and arrested 87 men & women. "I can't understand this!" cried a waitress at one of the joints. "We've always been tipped off before...
...problem: the plight of a multimillionaire's foster son (John Ireland) who escapes from a desert asylum for the criminal insane to find out whether he really committed the murder that put him there five years before. Mercedes McCambridge gamely turns up again, this time as a singing waitress who helps Ireland recover his lost memory and uncover the true culprit: a madman with a thriving business as a psychologist...
...platinum mink stole and picture hat. She was also cursing the photographers. "Make them stop doing that; I'll throw something at them in a minute," she told Kefauver angrily. Then, while the Senators listened breathlessly, Virginia told her simple tale of how a 17-year-old waitress from Alabama met a friend of big-time bookies named Joe Epstein, and started along the road to fame and riches...
...real-life TV show was better than the movies. When lush Virginia Hill ("I didn't keep any books or accounts or anything") left the witness stand to a patter of applause, televiewers felt they knew all they needed to know about the free-spending, fur-bearing ex-waitress. Similarly, an urbane, aging Republican politician named Charles Lipsky revealed himself as a road-company Machiavelli hopelessly fascinated by criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while the cameras concentrated...
...story) and came up with what eventually turned out to be the first solid facts on Brown's doings. He had questioned a Business School graduate, not as a suspect, but simply as a name in the little black book, and he had also tried to locate a former waitress who had roomed with the Dahlia when she worker in the Square. The Record finally tracked down Brown who promptly reversed himself and confirmed the Los Angeles reports. He left for Jersey City without explaining the reasons for his first story, although there is some evidence that he was trying...