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...uppercrustiest, amazonian Mrs. Braddock announced: "I intend as a reciprocal arrangement to invite Miss Dietrich along to the House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press fears to publish photos of it, was scarcely noticed. Later, Battling Bessie and Marlene chatted cozily. With no apologies for her proletarian garb, Bessie said: "I just had time to wash my face...
...reformed drunkards numbered only 100 or so after four years of often-discouraging efforts when, in 1939, they decided to publish a guide to giving up alcohol. The collaborators' first choice for a title was The Way Out. But a check at the Library of Congress showed twelve previous works thus named; the authors shied at the 13th, settled instead for their second choice, Alcoholics Anonymous. It has sold 300,000 copies...
...friend told of Fitzgerald's generosity to a writer who was then unknown: "After Scribners showed a reluctance to publish Ernest Hemingway, [Scott] issued an ultimatum. All that I recall of it was that it ended, 'or else.' " Henry Wales, an American correspondent in Paris, told how Fitzgerald did battle one night in an elegant Montmartre nightclub against six Argentines armed with champagne bottles, with the damages in broken glassware alone amounting to $500. Two close friends, Millionaire Gerald Murphy and oldtime Cinemactress Lois Moran, spoke as the original models of Dick Diver and Rosemary...
...beau Wellington," she found tedious, goodhearted, generous. But when the duke spurned her dun ("Publish and be damned"), he too met a different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house...
After putting up bail to get Reporter Bradshaw out, News-Star Editor N. B. ("Beachy") Musselman went to work on Harrington. Said a Page One editor's note: "The News-Star has never published the criminal record of Sheriff Jim Harrington before because a man's past is not always indicative of his future actions. However, in the light of [what has happened], the News-Star feels an obligation to publish his past in full. We regret not having done so before." The record, spread across two columns of the paper, showed that Sheriff Harrington had been arrested...