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Dozier was then taken to the U.S. military hospital at Vicenza, where he was declared in good health. With a six-week growth of beard and shaggy, tousled hair, the normally crew-cut general made several special requests to hospital personnel. The first: a haircut. The second: a cheeseburger, French fries and a Coke. He got both wishes, but not before he was tearfully reunited with his wife and daughter, who had by then flown in to meet him. Declared Judith Dozier: "We want to say thanks to all the people in the world for their love and their prayers...
Tall and thin, with a scruffy reddish beard and glasses, Hayes, 29, "and getting older by the minute," did not come to the help of the homeless because he was appointed to the job. He simply took on the responsibility. The Georgetown University graduate first noticed the homeless when he began studying law at New York University, just a bottle's throw from the Bowery. "I shared the common myth about them," he recalls. "I assumed that they lived on the street by choice...
...diseased poultry. "If I'd known how much this appeal was going to cost," Joseph Schechter later complained of his $60,000 legal fees, "I probably would have gone to jail." But it was this tawdry case that inspired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, stroking his white beard as he read the verdict to a packed courtroom, to strike down the entire NRA as unconstitutional...
...story so far: daredevil film maker (Apocalypse Now, the Godfather films) and presumptive bankrupt Francis Ford Coppola had just fired himself out of a cannon wearing a fine black beard and a jaunty smile but perhaps (there was a lot of public relations smoke) no leotard. Would he land in a bed of rose petals thrown by critics enraptured by his new film One from the Heart? Would his feud with Paramount Pictures, which had rescued his Zoetrope Studios from financial disaster a year ago, bring down ruin on his head? Or would he succeed in his cheeky gamble...
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