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...years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...
...parish priest slapped whitewash on the fearful roster, and the villagers clamped their jaws shut and tried to forget it. But five months later the man named first on the list was shot to death in the woods. A shepherd and a woman followed him to their graves soon afterward. Then, in July 1950, the police caught up with Outlaw Liandru and clapped him into jail...
...minutes later, she listened to her own distinctive voice played back, circled three notes on the music and said: "I think I was a little off here. Let's try it again." The second take sent the control-room people into ecstasies. Listening to it afterward, Jo discussed her half-hour's work of singing dispassionately: "It Should sell like You Belong to Me," she said. "It's got the same lustiness. It's gutsy...
...months after he became a man, John got his feet out from under his father's table. He went to work in a brother-in-law's general store, and soon afterward decided to go in business for himself. Sussex County is chicken country, and John thought Millsboro needed a chicken-feed supplier. He and a brother borrowed a few hundred dollars, part from their father, part from a bank, and started the Millsboro Feed Co. It was no bonanza, but it grew steadily. At 19, John married Elsie Steele, a farm girl. In the early years...
...devils, even after their supposed master was dead, went right on with their deviltry. The day after the execution, one of two friars who had helped torture Grandier came down sick, passed into convulsions and not long afterward died in despair, knocking the crucifix from his confessor's hand. His colleague lasted a few years more, but soon went insane, and died so. Father Jean-Joseph Surin, the great Jesuit contemplative who finally cured Sister Jeanne, did so only at the cost of becoming himself possessed. Sister Jeanne, however, with her flair for the dramatic, became a celebrity...