Word: moonlighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly. Ed Long's rare, felicific moment on center stage resulted from a decision of the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct that it could see nothing wrong with his acceptance of $160,000 in legal fees since 1961. While many Senators moonlight,* there were dark hints that Long had profited from his chairmanship of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure by accepting fees to help Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Investigating a LIFE article on Long's finances, the ethics committee, made up of three Democrats and three Republicans, reported that its staff had questioned...
...Mussolini and Capone. Nearly 20,000 fans turned out at Madison Square Garden for the Anti-Def rally, and the chairman played it with his usual style. He arrived in time to miss all the speeches, sang six old Italian ballads (I've Got You Under My Skin, Moonlight in Vermont), and beat...
...George Romney's Viet Nam "brainwashing" response spends less than half of his waking hours as a newsman. During daylight, Lou Gordon, 49, is a $50,000-a-year middleman for a women's-clothing manufacturer. He wears slick suits, a toupee-and sometimes a gun. By moonlight, he is a part-time expose specialist on Detroit radio (WXYZ) and UHF television (WKBD). For more than a decade, he has been collecting ugly facts in Detroit and spilling them out to a mildly fascinated public. Always, he says, in the interest of "public welfare...
Scorned and reviled by many in Detroit for his personal abrasiveness and scandal-oriented journalism, Gordon remains unperturbed. His TV show has recently been expanded to two nights a week in Detroit and syndicated for pickup in Philadelphia and Boston. Moonlight muckraking adds $50,000 a year to Gordon's income, and as he points out proudly, "I have never been sued and have never had to make a retraction...
...They have only four treasured works displayed on the rustic grounds of their summer place on Long Island, but each one gains a new dimension be side the woods and water. Indeed, Giacometti's worn but stately woman seems plainly made to stroll among the maples in the moonlight. Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, widow of the Milwaukee indus trialist, missed Gerhard Marcks's Bremen Town Musicians so much after she lent it to the Milwaukee Art Center that she took it back again, keeps it illuminated at night so she can observe it while dining...