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...comedies in those days. Incidentally, the girl who was dancing was the girl who became my wife, and is now my wife. So I sat there and watched him, and I made a suggestion. I said, 'Wouldn't it be funny if one of those comics hid in that suit of armor in the hallway?' Gilbert Pratt looked at me and said, 'What for?' I said, 'And then when the professor walks in and he throws his cigaret away, and he throws it in the suit of armor, look what will happen. . . .' That...
...pals, Angelo ("Julie") Catalano, State's witness. The two had not met since Gurino tried and failed to take his fellow mobster for a ride last spring because he feared that Catalano would talk. When Catalano saw his would-be assassin, he went white with terror, hid behind detectives. But as he listened to the whining confession, Catalano took heart, came out from behind his protectors, stared unbelievingly at the cringing fat man in the chair. At the end his smile was tipped with scorn. As for Vito Gurino, it looked as if he would end his story...
...some of CORP.'S junior bonds) depends on what it can get out of suing CORP. Objective of the suit: back in 1933, Hoppy had tried to escape the day of reckoning by inventing a so-called "Recap Plan" which stripped Co. of most of its assets, hid them in CORP. Now it is up to Co.'s trustee to void the Recap Plan, recover any assets that may be left after CORP.'S water has been squeezed...
Died. John George Howard, 87, who 41 years ago helped Prisoner of War Winston Churchill escape from his captors, the Boers; at Johannesburg. He hid Churchill, who had a ?25 reward on his head, in a mine pit for three days, later concealed him among bales of wool, arranged for his transportation to friendly Portuguese territory...
When, at the age of 22, Richard Halliburton lawlessly hid in the shrubbery, watched the Taj Mahal and his chance by moonlight, and swam in the lily-padded pool, he was neither putting on a show nor concocting copy: he was simply a college boy on the loose, a little bit crazy with romantic enthusiasm...