God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian (16 page)

possible synonyms suggested themselves:

"clownish" or "cute." I have now cracked the code. "Colorful" in the
New
York Times
means unbelievably good looking and personable and rich, but socialist. You want to talk

late lawyer husband Vincent Hallinan, loaded with real estate bucks, back in

ran for president of the whole United States on the Progressive ticket! How clownish and cute can you get, even in California? Here's how clowning and cute. Vincent did six months in jail for his obstreperous defense of the labor leader Harry Bridges, who was accused of being a Communist during the McCarthy era. Vivian spent thirty days in the slammer for unladylike behavior during a civil rights demonstration in And get a load of this: Her five sons were all in the demonstration with her, and one of them, is

now district attorney of San Francisco!

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In Heaven, you can be any age you like. My own father is only nine. Vivian Hallinan has chosen to be eternally twenty-four, an utter knockout! I asked her how she felt about being called "colorful." She said she would rather have been called what Franklin D. Roosevelt was called by his enemies: "A traitor to her class."

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Jr.

unstrapped me from the gurney after yet another controlled near-death experience. I was lucky enough on this trip to interview none other than the late Adolf Hitler.

I was gratified to learn that he now feels remorse for any actions of his, however indirectly, which might have had anything to do with the violent deaths suffered by thirty-five million people during World War II. He and his mistress Eva Braun, of

were among

casualties, along with four million

Germans, six

million Jews, eighteen million citizens of the Soviet Union, and so on.