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...purchased a twopenny loaf at the baker's, and with the water from the pump made my supper; I then wrapped myself up in my great-coat, and laid down on the floor and slept till morning, when, on another loaf and a mug of water, I made my breakfast. From this regimen I feel no inconvenience whatever. Finding I can live in this manner, I have formed a determination never to prostitute my press to the purposes of corruption and abuse of this kind...
...Angeles. Once a radio and TV writer, he helped set the tone for pop culture's postwar flirtation with infidelity and angst in his Broadway farce The Seven Year Itch. The film version, with Marilyn Monroe, brought him to Hollywood, where he wrote the scripts for Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's and that classic spiked cocktail of melodrama, satire and treason, The Manchurian Candidate. His two films as writer-director, Lord Love a Duck and The Secret Life of an American Wife, are revered by comedy cultists...
...lapses are an annual event, with more than 20 intrusions in the past two decades. Here's a look at the most memorable breaches. June 1981 Three German tourists climb over the walls and camp overnight on the grounds of Buckingham Palace, believing it to be Hyde Park. After breakfast on the lawn, they are finally apprehended when they ask a gardener for the exit. Police announce a security review, but add, reassuringly, that the campers would have been discovered earlier if they hadn't stayed so close to the wall. July 1982 Michael Fagan breaks into the Queen...
...BLASSIE, 85, early villainous hero of professional wrestling during the 1950s and '60s; in Hartsdale, N.Y. He helped propel his TV celebrity by jeering the crowds, biting opponents in the ring and calling foes "pencil-neck geeks." In 1983 he appeared with the late comic Andy Kaufman in My Breakfast with Blassie, a film parody of My Dinner with Andre...
...Members of the Yokohama Country & Athletic Club, for instance, are entitled to stay at Melbourne's venerable Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, where a double room and breakfast cost a mere $106 (a savings of more than $70 on typical city center-hotel rates). If you belong to the Beijing Riviera Country Club, then you can rest your head at the swanky Raffles Town Club in Singapore, where a suite with its own pool starts from $185. Meanwhile, members of the Tokyo British Club can rent low rise-bungalow accommodation at the leafy United Services Recreation Club in Hong Kong...