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London tailor pantsless prank and Ed Pooley memory
A humor column recounts a London tailor mix up leaving four jackets and three trousers prompting a sharp taxi confrontation. It recalls Ed Pooley, former editor of the El Paso Herald Post, and a 1948 trip with Bob Ruark to meet Talulah Bankhead, including a bold kiss incident. Helen Hayes is noted for Airport and a plane hitchhiker incident en route to The Front Page show.
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Ed Pooley
el Paso Herald-Post
Justice of the Peace
Texas
New York
Bob Ruark
Bob
Talulah Bankhead
Roark
Miss Bankhead
The
Elysee Hotel
Los Angeles
Charlie ,MacArthur
Ben Hecht