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...Britons are psychoanalyzed (man on the couch to his analyst, who is sound asleep in a chair behind him: ". . . and always, I feel that I'm an awful bore...
When shapely Mignonette (Linda Christian) comes to work for the Bonnards as a maid, Bibi feels the first stirrings of sex. He steals a kiss from Mignonette while she is asleep. He is also falsely accused of drawing a suggestive picture at school. But all ends happily, with Mignonette and Uncle Desmonde in love, grand-père getting out of his sickbed to continue his adventures, and Bibi putting on his first pair of long pants and kissing the little girl next door...
...Singer Johnnie Ray wailed that his arrest at the Boston airport as a common drunk was "all a mistake." His explanation: "I fell asleep at that airport. Pretty soon someone came and woke me up and told me to come with them. I went. I thought they were my managers . . . When I woke up two hours later, I found I wasn't in that plane at all. I was in jail. I was pretty upset...
Utrillo: "I was able to capture all the violence and the pathos of his life. We don't know many men who started getting drunk when they were only eight months old.* Today, Utrillo is either asleep, drunk or berserk. If it weren't for Lucie Valore [TIME, Aug. 25], he'd be dead. He told me: 'I hate my house. It's full of bourgeois furniture and servants. One day I'm going to run away and go back to Montmartre where I belong.' It was the saddest thing...
...very nearly flunked out. Then she discovered that, to act in the college plays, she had to get high grades. She got them. She also alternated between living like a hermit and making a public show of herself. Sometimes she would wait until the rest of the dormitory was asleep before she would take a bath. But once, she took a bath in the library fountain and rolled herself dry on the grass. She got away with that one. But when she was caught smoking a cigarette (her first), she was suspended, briefly...