Word: beulah
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...readily lent themselves to scareheads: somebody bludgeoned the Walter Overells aboard their cruiser in Newport bay, Calif, and blew up the boat, and the Overells with it, by a charge of dynamite rigged to an alarm clock. From the moment the cops picked up 18-year-old Daughter Beulah Louise Overell and her boy friend, Los Angeles newspapers had a field...
...their jail cells, sullen, bushy-browed Beulah and George ("Bud") Gollum, 21, an ex-Navy radioman, peppered each other with love letters full of double and triple entendres. Hearst's Examiner got hold of them, ran off 200 copies of a dummy final edition without them to lull the rival Times, then spread the letters over two pages...
Neither the Republicans' labor bill nor the Communist coup in Hungary got such space in the Examiner as Beulah and Bud. The Los Angeles press invaded suburban Santa Ana in force, with 30-odd reporters, photographers and such trained seals as Mystery Writer Craig Rice (later fired), Screenwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, and Adela Rogers St. Johns...
...What Beulah needed, Adela decided, was her mother: "Someone who could say to her, 'Louise . . . you ought not to sit there in a bright, striped blue-green dress with your arms bare to the shoulder . . . your arms aren't your best point . . . they look too strong...
Strangest visitor to the cellar is a U.S. Army Negro chaplain, the Rev. Hoseah Washington Smith, of Jesus Church, Beulah, Louisiana. At first Yid thinks the chaplain is a sucker who will pay 60 smokes for Eve. But the Rev. Mr. Smith has a package which he says contains "calories...