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Last week, his flaming red beard turned white after twelve years' confinement in a District of Columbia mental hospital, 72-year-old Poet Ezra Pound heard himself adjudged incurably insane, but harmless enough to go free. So ruling on the motion, which had the consent of the U.S. Attorney General, Judge Bolitha J. Laws of the Federal District Court in Washington dismissed the U.S. indictment voted against Pound for his pro-Fascist, anti-Semitic broadcasts in Italy on behalf of Mussolini during World War II and freed the arrogant, warped old man to spend the rest of his senescence...
...tried to escape. I went out for House dramatics, hoping that I could enter into the world of Bohemia but I was cut off from that land by the glass wall. My acting--like a robot, they told me. I tried growing a beard but it was no use. I knew it was wrong, knew I was nothing but a Pyrex flask with a fiberglass beard. So I gave up and shaved it off. I began to think that perhaps it was my fate to become an Erlenmeyer flask. But fate or not, still I struggled...
...from. Rich Uncle Simon seems a logical choice ("If you think that money isn't enough to make a person happy, you've just never met my Uncle Simon"), but Uncle Simon refuses with the reproach: "My boy, you want to learn how to shave on my beard...
Even for Freuchen the North could be hard. He lost a leg to frostbite and he grew his beard not because he was an eccentric but because long exposure had left his face too tender for a razor. But, he wrote, "those who have been to the Arctic always long to go back. The unrest never leaves them and they will sacrifice much to once again glimpse...
...which knows him in the beard that he grew for his current stage role, Visitor Ustinov is most familiar as wit and mimic in his appearances on the Jack Paar Show, but he complains: "All those interruptions [for commercials] while you sit there trying to be Voltaire-Voltaire wouldn't stand for it." He is particularly fascinated by U.S. giveaways, "where they meter the suffering that people have had, and the one with the saddest life gets the refrigerator. It's like watching a medieval morality play with all the vices paraded before you-avarice, for instance...