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...annoyed Janis. "Listen," she shouted, "I know there won't be any trouble if you'll just leave!" The officers refused and sounded the horn again. That did it. Janis, as a fan reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with a string of oaths and obscenities, whereupon the cops hustled her off to jail on charges of using profanity and indecent language. Free on bail, the queen of hyperthyroid blues insisted: "I say anything I want onstage. I don't mind getting arrested because I've turned a lot of kids...
...True enough. Sanders filed to divorce Zsa Zsa and she then cross-complained, whereupon the judge ruled "ladies first" and granted her an interlocutory decree on April...
...York Yankee, explained it this way: the boys were sitting around a bar in Detroit hoisting a convivial glass when Dave Boswell, a talented but emotionally erratic pitcher, learned that a coach had reported him for cheating on an exercise drill. Boswell stormed out threatening to get "that squealer." Whereupon the team peacemaker, Outfielder Bob Allison, went outside to calm the raging Boswell. Martin emerged a few moments later and found that Boswell had flattened Allison and kicked him. Then the unfortunate pitcher came at Martin. "I did open my mouth a little loud to my manager," said Boswell after...
Afterwards, was it time to return to dispensing pills on his suburban rounds? Not a bit of it. "I'd rather be a conductor than a doctor any time," Bialoguski said. Whereupon he packed his reviews and his pocket-edition scores into a battered briefcase and set out in search...
...blunderer who had the aristocratic connections and great good luck to survive his gaffes. As a World War I military attaché in the U.S., his fumbling attempts at espionage and sabotage led to his expulsion. As a postwar politician, his machinations finally gained him the chancellorship in 1932, whereupon he brought Hitler into the government-and swiftly found himself superseded. He then served the Führer, first as Vice Chancellor and later as ambassador to Turkey until war's end, when he was convicted of being a major Nazi offender and sentenced to eight years...