Mitchell Schwartz, co-village historian of Flower Hill, has forwarded his favorite "all-time Roslyn and Flower Hill related story" courtesy of Newsday's archives.
Update: The July 8, 1956 issue of the Daily News reported that Paul Newman dined at the Jolly Fisherman in Roslyn
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Newsday archives: 1956--Paul Newman gets booked in Mineola
Mineola - This story was originally published in Newsday on July 9, 1956
Movie Star Paul Newman was a silent leading man in court over the weekend as his hazy nightfull of traffic charges cleared off and only a traffic summons remained. Everybody but Newman did the talking.
Newman, star of the story of fighter Rocky Graziano’s life, “Somebody Up There Likes Me,” was a disliked man early Saturday when a Roslyn bartender charged that Newman’s car plowed through shrubbery leaving a restaurant and a police officer added a charge of passing a red light. But in court, with his lawyer doing the talking, Newman was freed of the bartender’s complaint and released pending trial on the red light charge.
But, to get back to the chronological plot of When Rocky the Actor Met Rocky the Cop:
Newman and some friends dined in Roslyn early Saturday. After a late dinner, about 1:45 a.m., they jumped into the actor’s new Volkswagen convertible, which plowed into some shrubbery as it left the restaurant and took off down the highway. Thomas J. Hutcheck, of 20 Overlook Terrace, Roslyn Heights, bartender at the restaurant, got the license number and called police.
Ptl. Rocco Caggiano spotted Newman’s car at Port Washington and Northern Blvds., Flower Hill, about five minutes later and pulled the car over to the side of the road. Hutcheck charged Newman with leaving the scene of an accident, and Caggiano said the actor went through a red traffic light.
Newman, who also starred in “The Desperate Hours,” didn’t like the way the script was going when Caggiano took him to headquarters. So he told the officer about his role as Rocky Graziano.
New York Daily News, July 8, 1956
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I didn’t know that Paul was twice married, only knew about Joanne Woodward. Mrs. Paul Newman that is pictured in the article is Jacqueline Witte. They were married 1949 thru 1958. They had 3 children, then Paul and Joanne had 3 children as well.