Word: beds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Nieman dinner--a five-hour session of cocktails, roast beef, wine and more cocktails--Rosenthal headed for bed at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Just after he fell asleep, the phone rang. I apologized for calling so late an hour...
...this retreat, where life and problems are simpler. He lives in a thatch-roofed hut, shaded by tall palm trees, at the edge of a white beach. It is one large room with lift-up frond shutters that invite the gentle sea breeze. In addition to a large bed festooned with mosquito netting, the room contains a refrigerator and gas-fed stove. In the back, separated by a wall, is a flush toilet and shower. The place is comfortable but fairly primitive, very much a man's digs...
Brando's life conforms to his surroundings. He rises shortly before sun rise (about 5 a.m.) and goes to bed early (9 p.m.). "I love to walk the beach naked at night," he said, "with just the wind caressing my body. It's an awesome sense of freedom and very sensual." Sometimes, to get away entirely, he takes his boat to one of his eleven uninhabited islands and sleeps on the beach...
...goal is to keep hip, antinews types from going to bed or switching to Johnny Carson," says KTTV News Director Charles Riley of the 30-min. show. "If we offered straight news after Mary Hartman, all you would hear is the sound of sets clicking off." Instead, MN2 is clicking with an audience that has doubled since the program went on the air three months ago. It now tops Los Angeles' five other independent stations in its time slot and is challenging ABC and the CBS late movie...
...later, about 1937, she was sent home to die. Grace had other ideas. Recovery was plainly harrowing: "I could not live in either the past which was past, or the present from which I was locked away." Jessamyn remembers and describes with some retrospective amusement her plans for exchanging "bed rest for something more everlasting." (She even thought of climbing into the bath and pulling an electric heater in after...