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...problem is this: on March 6, 1960, he appeared on television to indulge in one of his routine denunciations of cops in Harlem, most of whom he claims are on the take from gamblers, narcotics and flesh peddlers; in the course of his diatribe, he named a Harlem widow named Esther James as "bag woman" for the police department...
Delon keeps his head, and, momentarily out of peril, goes to work as chauffeur for a sleek, wealthy young widow (Lola Albright) and her nubile cousin (Jane Fonda). In their Italianate castle, practically everything is extraordinary. The cousin pretends to be the maid, although she wears Balmain originals. The widow talks to her mirror, and with reason. Behind its one-way glass dwells a former chauffeur, Vincent, missing since he murdered her husband two years earlier. Delon, who serves his employer unstintingly up to a point, eventually balks. "You and Vincent want to kill me," he whispers, embracing...
Three weeks after Sir Winston Churchill's death, his will was published in London. He left an estate valued at $744,950 after death duties, consisting principally of his London home and his Surrey stud farm, and bequeathed one-third to his widow Clementine and the rest to his four children. The will did not represent the bulk of Churchill's wealth, derived from book royalties estimated at $3,000,000; that was in a trust, set up in 1946 for his children and grandchildren, and under Crown law exempt from death duties...
...that he grabbed a pistol from his cab and shot "I don't know where"-it was, it turned out, into the head of an 18-year-old freshman. And the third victim, a 58-year-old packer, died of a heart attack minutes after (and, maintains his widow, because of) running the snowball gauntlet on West Cumberland Avenue...
Married. Andrew Heiskell, 49, board chairman of Time Inc.; and Marian Sulzberger Dryfoos, 46, granddaughter of the modern New York Times's first publisher, daughter of its second, widow of its third, sister of its fourth and present publisher; he for the third time, she for the second; in a civil ceremony; in Manhattan...