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...into a chorus in the U.S. press, aided by Hollywood's alert pressagents, out to defend their clients' stock in trade: "I am not built for any kind of boy's fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies...
Bark Worse Than Bite. Sinatra rejected so many tunes, in fact, that his worried business managers began hounding him to accept one. "Finally I told them: 'The next song Mitch suggests, I do.' You know what it was? Mama Will Bark-and I sang it with Dagmar. I growled and I barked on the record, and I guess it sold, but the only good it did me was with the dogs...
Allen's best performance is given on the show seen by the fewest people, his 40-minute, late-at-night program telecast locally in New York City. In four months he has built up the same sort of fanatic following that once belonged to Jerry Lester and Dagmar. But, unlike the frenzied Broadway Open House, the Steve Allen Show is often relaxed to the point of torpor. Steve sits at a table, fidgeting with his mail, complaining about the public-address system, or asking unimportant questions of his off-camera crew. Sometimes he has his barber in to give...
...Jury Did Not Believe. With Dagmar's corpse on his hands. Fabian looked around the roadside for signs of a struggle. Finding none, he reasoned that the body had been dumped from a car. The Yard's pathologist bore him out. "She had been seated upright . . . after she died," he said. "Seated in a motor car?" asked Fabian. "Something less upholstered," the doctor suggested. Out went Fabian's order: check all trucks that used the road between...
...found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger blustered that Dagmar Peters had tried to rob him, but "the jury did not believe him, and he was hanged at Wandsworth Prison...