Complex sentence: The two had been drinking for hours before 24-year-old James "Bing" Davidson slipped and fell eight stories, an event witnessed by two policemen, yet the event was largely kept out of the press, thus saving Lynde's career.
Split into simpler sentences: The two had been drinking for hours before 24-year-old James "Bing" Davidson slipped and fell eight stories. The event was witnessed by two policemen, yet it was largely kept out of the press, thus saving Lynde's career.