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...penthouse. Jewel-&-fur-bearing Mrs. Hilton (who once told tabloid reporters that unidentified villains had kept her in "continuous slumber" for six months with mysterious drugs) now reported to police that a tall stranger in a grey suit, fedora, pigskin gloves and dark glasses had tied her and her maid to a love seat and made off with her jewels. He first got Zsazsa out of bed in her black chiffon negligee, she said, and took the diamond ring, diamond bracelet and diamond necklace she had been sleeping in. Then he got the stuff off the night table...
Grenadine's father was believed to be "the bastard son of an English King who had despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind...
...Missouri. The Navy, which has a stern rule against carrying women aboard warships-even grandmothers-because there are no toilet facilities for them, promptly passed the buck to the White House. But Mrs. Craig was well aware that the Navy had provided facilities for Mrs. Truman, Margaret and a maid in the austere privacy of the captain's island...
...Diego, well-to-do Mrs. Alfred W. Ingalls was found guilty of keeping her 57-year-old Negro maid, Dora Jones, in bondage for more than 30 years. Mr. Ingalls is a former member of Boston's Watch & Ward Society...
...Farmer's Daughter. Loretta Young as a country maid who runs for Congress; with Joseph Gotten and Ethel Barrymore (TIME, April...