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...Ziegfeld Follies into an endless string of silent-movie romances, most notably Erich Von Stroheim's 1925 The Merry Widow; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In love with her own publicity, she was a prototype and prisoner of stardom-"the girl with the bee-stung lips," who rode around in a gold-fitted Rolls, with sable rugs and liveried footmen, waltzed through four marriages and squandered $3,000,000 in the space of eight years. "I shall dance to my grave," she once said. She never made it in the talkies, and died alone and dependent...
...Stung by newsmen's charges of secretiveness and favoritism, the President declared: "I regard my own responsibility in this field as making available to all of you all of the information that I can, consistent with the national interest, on as fair and equitable a basis as possible. How and where I do that is a decision that I reserve for myself and I shall continue to reserve for myself." Meanwhile, said Johnson, he would 1) see reporters "at many different times in many different ways," and 2) try to hold at least one monthly press conference with "ample...
Cheyenne Autumn has everything it takes to make a great western epic, except greatness. In her book based on a bleak episode of American history, Mari Sandoz re-created the ordeal of 286 Cheyenne Indians, stung by the indignities of exile on a reservation, who in 1878 fought and starved and struggled through a 1,500-mile journey from Oklahoma's Indian Territory to their homeland in eastern Montana. En route, with U.S. Army units ever at their heels, they were bedeviled by bad weather, bitter dissension, and the white man's cruelty. In this wayward...
...Washington's Mayflower Hotel, members of the city's Association of Oldest Inhabitants had just finished their 99th anniversary dinner. Suddenly, one of the guests emitted a high-pitched whine. Washington Evening Star Reporter Walter Gold leaped to his feet as if stung and dashed from the room in search of a phone. A few minutes later, the Star's night city editor gave him a message: "Holdup at Big D Liquor Store, 4173 Minnesota Avenue, N.E." With that, Reporter Gold was on his way to the story...
Harassed by a partisan gallery at M.I.T. yesterday, the Crimson fencers stung back with a 21-6 victory over the Engineers...