Word: unless
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Working with the President: "The Secretary of State cannot get intimate with the President unless they work at it -and unless they're both in town...
...divorce proceedings for adultery in New York State. At the time, Patiño did not want a divorce, managed to head it off by a separation agreement stipulating that he would immediately pay his wife $500,000, with an additional $500,000 to be paid nine years later-unless he was caught committing adultery before then, in which case he was to pay the second $500,000 on the spot. Sure enough, Patiño had to pay off early, after an expensive series of transcontinental train rides with a New York model...
...clientele itself, three in particular: the Harwyn, the Stork and El Morocco. Like major-league ball clubs, they all have their stars. The Harwyn, especially nouveau riche, is a dissident Stork offshoot, having been started by former Stork employees, and treasures Frank Sinatra, who almost never slugs a photographer unless another one is there to snap the scene. (Eden Roc, in turn, is a Harwyn offshoot; New York nightclubs sometimes seem to multiply like amoebae.) The Stork itself is no longer particularly chic, and even the end of its feud with Walter Winchell has done little for either party...
...episode in which some 600 Jewish internees escape from a British camp on Cyprus, board a rustbucket called Exodus in the harbor at Famagusta, throw all their food overboard and proclaim to the watching world that they will die of starvation or even blow up the ship unless the British let them sail for the promised land...
...course, not everyone needs a fertility figure, and some galleries are wary of the Christmas trade. Says Beverly Hills' Frank Perls: "Giving pictures is worse than giving ties; unless a gallery owner wants many happy returns, he shouldn't be eager for Christmas sales...