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...hear the one about the half-Armenian woman in Bombay, with a weakness for baklava, who was introduced by her lover, the procuress, to a gigolo from the Seychelles known as Raper George? When her husband -- a 7-ft., entirely bald Azerbaijani all-in wrestler with gold-capped teeth -- heard about how his wife was spending her lazy afternoons, he hurried over to the small hotel where she was finding her pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heat And Lust: EVENINGS AT MONGINI'S AND OTHER STORIES by Russell Lucas | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...good old stories have been worn down worse than river rocks. The oilman who re-created an entire Neiman-Marcus window display-gowns, gems, furs and all-in his living room one Christmas morn because his wife had said she had seen something in the window she wanted. The fellow who told LIFE magazine that he bought a Rolls-Royce because its powder-blue paint job matched his wife's favorite hat. Then there was H.L. Hunt, who, a Dallas editor once said, "would be the most dangerous man in America if he wasn't such a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Off for the G.O.P. | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

After a dinner break in which many of the protesters left the occupied building, the students recovered in Ballou to discuss the recent proposal and whether to stay for the weekend, and all-in leaders announced that Dreier had contacted them and would talk with them...

Author: By Stephen L. Davis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tufts Students Finish Three-Day Sit-In | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Died. William Red Fox, who claimed to be 105, self-styled Sioux Indian chief and controversial man of letters and humbug; in Corpus Christi, Texas. His 1971 book. The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox, told it all-in fact, more than all: in his memoirs, the chief recalled his days acting in vaudeville and the movies, and touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's wild West show. He remembered catching fish with the hooked ribs of field mice and the braves' 1876 victory dance after they had wiped out General Custer. But it was his blow-by-blow account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 15, 1976 | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: A Call for an Act of Creativity | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

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