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...Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey-haired, 49-year-old widow-could not keep the delicious secret. She winked at Liberace. All over the courtroom the middle-aged motherly doves twittered...
...Once the home of Peggy ("The Gorgeous Hussy") O'Neill (1796-1879), beautiful daughter of an innkeeper, who precipitated a historic scandal in Andrew Jackson's Administration. A widow, vivacious Peggy was for years the reputed mistress of Tennessee's Democratic Senator John Henry Eaton. Because there was a frightful flutter of gossip hovering over the pair, President-elect Jackson urged Eaton to "go marry her at once and shut their mouths." After Jackson appointed Eaton his Secretary of War, the gossip only worsened, and capital society, led by the wife of Vice President John Calhoun, barred...
...rise was so rapid that it can be traced to her very first picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955), a Hitchcock exercise in ghoulish gaiety. She was the cute little widow who could help exhume and rebury her husband's corpse half a dozen times, looking fond, puzzled, but no more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene...
...hours more than 1,000 dock workers held a mass protest meeting outside the gates of the Royal Albert Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty's subjects...
...Christos case, hapless Magistrate Rose announced: "I do not regret my decision. It was a painful one, but it was just." A few days later the magistrate suddenly fell ill and died. "An unfortunate coincidence," said his physician. So was the discovery that the day before he sentenced the Widow Christos to jail for her night sewing, Magistrate Rose had fined a man ?10 ($28) for indecently assaulting a six-year-old girl...