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...reference to your picture of me that ran in last Friday's paper, alleging that I was using a wire recorder to learn French while asleep, I can only say that you have got your facts all wrong...
...first place, I did not authorize the taking of the picture. As you could see from the picture, I was asleep...
Cezanne, who took his own measures to insure that his models stayed awake, posed Vollard on a stool precariously balanced on a rickety platform. Even so, the hulking dealer fell asleep and crashed to the floor. Cezanne was furious: "You wretch! You have upset the pose! You should sit like an apple. Who ever saw an apple fidgeting?" After the first 100 sittings, Cezanne cooled off sufficiently to announce: "I haven't done so badly with the front of your shirt...
...Chicago, Mrs. Grandoline Yolanda Shalimar Pepper Scarlet Dellis explained why she fired four shots at her husband: "I'm an exotic dancer who's worked in every striptease joint in town ... I like an appreciative audience, and not even my husband can get away with falling asleep while I'm talking...
...little girls of Hydesville, N.Y., thought up a way to mystify their ma. In bed at night they tied an apple to a string and bumped it loudly on the floor. Hearing the sonorous raps, Mrs. Fox climbed upstairs to investigate, and of course found both children apparently fast asleep. Cried puzzled Mother Fox: "Is this a disembodied spirit that has taken possession of my dear children...