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Waitt had also had a slight brush with trouble in 1946, when he appeared as a witness at the Senate investigation of the war-contracts frauds engineered by the Garsson brothers. General Waitt had enjoyed some of the Garssons' hospitality, danced happily with Murray Garsson's daughter, Natalie...
...florid man with the brush haircut rose, walked over to the jury box and grasped the rail with both hands. His manner was cozy. "We've all been here a long time," he confided, "and I feel I have come to know you well." Then he began buttering up: "In this sanctuary of justice, a holy place, to me second only to a church, I see you not as just twelve ladies and gentlemen. I see you strong, resolute and courageous soldiers of justice...
...Author Mitford is no woman to let her story stop there. With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word "brush" before entering the drawing room (it fixes her smile) convert her Edwardian pomp into a garish girlishness. Cedric completes his round of conquests by capturing Polly's husband, who has lost his interest in women anyway, and whisking him and Lady Montdore off to a gay Paris holiday. "So here...
...Seattle, an insurance salesman refurbished an old trick to sign up the uninsured. He got pictures of unsuspecting prospects, had an artist brush in the lines, sags and bags they might have at 65, and confronted the subjects with the question : "What are you doing to take care of this fellow...
Hearth & Home. In London, Alexander Richards, suing for divorce, charged that his wife made life so unbearable that he took a job at the British embassy in Moscow after she had stuffed his best suit up the chimney and snipped the bristles off his shaving brush. In Atlanta, a divorce plaintiff reportedly told the judge that he was already separated from his wife: "She fired at me five times, your honor. I started separating on the first shot. By the fifth shot, your honor, I had completely separated." In London, Raymond Steiner was granted a divorce after charging that...