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...Washroom Beat. Forbidden the courtroom, more than 60 newsmen stood watch outside, pounced on everyone who came out the door. Even Columnist Winchell was on hand quipping that Judge Valente apparently thought "little girls should be obscene and not heard," and feeling right at home in what he called an atmosphere of "opened transoms and peepholes...
...evidence to help their side, and attempting to try the case in the newspapers. After each court session, Star Witness Pat Ward, 19, who had started the whole case by charging that Jelke was boss of a string of $50-to-$500-a-night call girls, hustled to the washroom. There she held press conferences with newshens, while disgusted reporters stood around outside and city desks assigned more newshens to the "washroom beat." Sniffed the Mirror's Veteran Reporter Jean Adams: "All this shoving and running around in toilets! The dignity and prestige of the Criminal Courts Building...
...gilt edge part of the German silent-picture oaring. The title and billing suggest that it is a comedy, but actually it is the tragic story of an old man demoted from the splendor of his position as a doorman at a plush hotel to the ignominy of washroom attendant duty. The scenes of the man clinging pitifully to his braided doorman's coat, counterpointed only by the maudlin humor of a drunken party, play up the pathos of this demotion very effectively. The title refers to a purposely incongruous ending, one which I thought was the film's weakest...
Woods, a student in the School of Design, plunged to his death shortly before 11 a.m. from an eleventh-floor washroom of Boston's Park Square Building where he was doing some work in an office...
...Hoboken park, he stepped into a public washroom. There, two hoodlums attacked Brother Salesius, beat him insensible and stole his wallet. It held about $10. They left the old white-haired monk unconscious on the washroom floor...