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...being a funnyman was supplied by Comic Garry Moore: "Almost every comedian starts out by being too small or too fat to be an athlete and, to compensate, he becomes the class clown." Kathleen Winsor, whose Forever Amber has sold 3,000,000 copies, sat primly on a white bearskin and explained that in putting together her opus she had spent 1,303 hours in reading, 1,380 hours in indexing, and 1,284 hours in writing. She also felt that, in writing a historical novel, "it is a very good thing to have a knowledge of history." Author Winsor...
...Vikings, a drinking society, meets at a Sunset Strip restaurant, numbers among its members Victor Borge, Lauritz Melchior, Michael Wilding. The Vikings wear horned helmets and bearskin robes, and on special occasions blow an ancient Bavarian mountain horn. Their motto: "Work is the ruin of the drinking classes...
...London hostesses. He told the ladies that his favorite dish was pemmican, but at one party when his own verse sent him rolling on the floor in frenzy, he nibbled aristocratic ankles in order of rank-duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night and day and the antipodes do not affect it." Privately he admitted, "I'm damned if I could tell the difference...
Stevenson felt the need of a rest. He spent most of the daylight hours loafing on the lodge's flagstone patio, wandered only occasionally down to Lake Minocqua, 70 yds. away, for a little halfhearted casting. Evenings he lolled in the bearskin-draped living room before a fieldstone fireplace big enough to take 7-ft. logs, which were hauled automatically from the basement at the touch of a button. He went to bed at 9:30 every night to sleep under the stars, seen through the shatterproof glass roof of his bedroom...
...utensils. Knowles came back with the skin of a bear he claimed to have trapped in a pit, wore it through Boston's streets before one of the biggest crowds in the city's history. When jeering Hearstmen claimed to have found a bullet hole in the bearskin, Knowles went back to Maine, and in front of witnesses clubbed to death a New Brunswick bear which had been brought down in a cage and released...