Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Nightclub Singer-Comedienne Dorothy ("The Park Avenue Hillbilly") Shay (real name: Dorothy Sims), 35; and Richard C. Looman, 38, West Coast P.R. man for Chrysler Corp.; she for the first time, he for the second; in Brentwood, Calif...
Esprit de Corps. In Brentwood, England, a British army officer, testifying on behalf of two of his men charged with car theft, conceded that they were inclined to be lawless, slovenly, irresponsible and lazy, but assured the court that they had "good army character...
Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which...
Welk, who neither smokes nor drinks, lives in Brentwood, Calif, in an eleven-room Spanish-style house (no swimming pool), with his wife-a former nurse-and three children. From TV, Coral Records, the Aragon ballroom and personal appearances he grosses close to $2,000,000 a year at a time when most bands are having trouble. He is happy to pass on his formula to other orchestra leaders: "Just as soon as bands are willing to play for the public instead of themselves, they will have plenty of people ready to dance and listen to them...
...dragon was a scaly monster with a forked tongue and hooked claws. He politely requested the knight's identity. "I am Henry of Brentwood, knight," the knight replied. "My father was Sir Tiffany of The Glen, and my mother was an enchantress...