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...early one morning. The caller said another call would be made to us ~at 11 a.m. At that hour, I was told another call would be made at 8 o'clock that night. At 8, the same man called and instructed me to go to a certain telephone booth in a hotel to await another call. At 11:30 o'clock that night, the call came in. The man was very jittery. He told me where to go and deposit the money...
...wonderment at the workings of the theater, used his tape recorder to get French Singer Lilo's story of her sudden stardom in Can-Can, veteran Hoofer Pat (Guys and Dolls) Rooney's advice to youngsters (first rule: "Don't whistle in the dressing room"), Shirley Booth and Basil Rathbone in a wake for the late Empire Theater, and Rosalind Russell with songs from Wonderful Town. This week's guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Elliott Nugent, Yul Brynner, Ezio Pinza, Alfred Drake and Cab Galloway...
...some lively competition. No sooner had Schwab's announced that three visiting Italian starlets would be guests at its soda fountain for publicity pictures and ice cream than the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel Drugstore retaliated with a bulletin that the Ritz brothers would throw a party for friends at Booth No. 1. "This is the table," a solemn announcement reminded patrons, "where the R.K.O.-Stolkin deal was practically concluded some time...
...Feeling. While Hughes and Johnson talked on and on-for 55 minutes minutes-the FBI agents traced the call to a phone booth in the mezzanine of Baltimore's Town Theater, where Mickey Spillane's blood and thunder I, the Jury was playing. The FBI rounded up a small task force of its agents, including Agent John Brady Murphy, 35, who had already started home to his wife and three children when he got orders to come back to his office. At the theater, four agents, led by Murphy, cautiously made their way up the stairs...
Johnson, playing his feeling, had pulled out his gun and was waiting for the agents as they came up the stairs. He fired through the glass door, fatally wounding Agent Murphy, seriously wounded another FBIman before he died in the booth under a rain of bullets. Next day Hughes gave Johnson an appropriate epitaph: "You can't mess with a mad dog and Johnny was a bad guy and that was that...