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...early '40s, Ed Gardiner was the owner and star of a low-budget radio program called "Duffy's Tavern," and he employed his wife, Shirley Booth, to play the part of rasp-voiced Miss Duffy. The program and the marriage are no longer popular favorites; Gardiner decided to beat U.S. income takes in Puerto Rico, and Miss Booth returned to the stage...
David Schine, a subcommittee staff member, hustled to a telephone booth in the corner of the big hearing room in the Senate Office Building. It wasn't long before McCarthy told reporters word had come back from Philip L. Cole, deputy public printer, that Rothschild had been suspended immediately without...
...when the news of his death got around the Village this week, there was genuine sadness. At the San Remo Cafe, Caricaturist Jake Spencer smashed Bodenheim's personal gin glass and proposed a toast. "Max was a splendid type," he said. "He used to write poetry in a booth here and then try to peddle the verse at the bar for a drink...
...told Vag he should be getting back to his history reading. Well . . . five more minutes. And maybe I can find something really funny, he thought. The flannel led pair in front of him was cackling over a card emblazoned with an outhouse. It turned out to be a phone booth. Well, Oh, there was blue coat again, gleefully whacking his friend on the back. He was holding a large card decorated with a picture of a secretary. Vag strained to see what it said. "I'm just a Working Girl. . ."the yellow letters shrieked. May be they've come...
...undertaken this formidable task was born at Yorba Linda, Calif, to Hannah Milhous and Francis Anthony Nixon. When Dick was 13, his older brother Harold contracted TB. Hannah Nixon took him to Arizona where, on visits, Dick earned money as barker for a wheel of fortune carnival booth. In Whittier, Calif., where the Nixons had moved after their Yorba Linda lemon grove failed, Frank and the boys kept the home, grocery store and filling station going. After five years in Arizona. Harold died* and Hannah returned to Whittier, where she worked 18 hours a day in the store...