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...gave her a chance to get into local football games free, as a member of the Central Catholic High School band. What she thought she wanted then was to become a psychiatrist-largely because she had seen the movie Spellbound (in which Ingrid Bergman played psychiatrist to Gregory Peck's paranoid guilt complex). But then Lillian began to listen to such jazz artists as Baritone Saxman Gerry Mulligan and Trumpeter Chet Baker, and she became enthusiastic about her trombone...
...Shame on TIME for devoting so much precious space to capitalist puffery. We have to admit, however, we enjoyed the profile of Gussie Busch, "the original Peck's Bad Boy" and his fermented empire...
...Gussie Jr. says, "a kid just couldn't have had more." Friends remember young Gussie as difficult for other children to get along with, recall that he was hot-tempered and impatient with dogs and horses. Says Gussie himself: "Let's just say I was the original Peck's Bad Boy." He went to Fremont Public School in St. Louis, then tried Smith Academy, a private school. "Without doubt," says Busch, "I was the world's lousiest student. I never graduated from anything." Instead, Gussie Busch learned his lessons at the brewery, where he first went...
Burly Cinematenor Mario [The Great Caruso'] Lanza, a devil-may-care sort of swashbuckler with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because...
...Peck suggested that hte jury system is one of the major factors in court delays and that in civil cases "it is quite time to question the value of the jury system and at least to see what effect it is having on the administration of justice...