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What propelled her? As much as anything, she thought, a tough childhood. Like so many female movie stars, she was the product of a broken home. She made it through high school by serving as a slavey in a private school, enduring broom-handle beatings from the headmaster's wife. Dancing was her escape - first emotionally, then literally, when she became a Shubert chorus girl...
...Republican Jake Garn assured Sorensen that his integrity had not been in question. Said the Senator: "I thought you were the wrong man for the wrong position." Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh told Sorensen that some people were out to get him "because they don't want a clean broom at the CIA." Senator George McGovern emerged from the audience to remark that the episode showed that the "ghost of Joe McCarthy still stalks the land." Committee Chairman Dan Inouye, who opposed the nomination, said that he hoped Sorensen would leave with no "bitterness...
Although cold is a customary way of life during New England winters, many cities in Maine have already exhausted their snow-removal budgets. Highway crews in Connecticut have eaten through a 48,000-ton mountain of road salt near Hartford. "You might get a bucketful if you took a broom and swept the yard," said Edward Archibald, a highway department official. While blizzards battered Boston, the doughty breed of ice fishermen in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts pensively sipped Jack Daniel's, and kept right on angling in their snug lake shacks...
...Carleton College and fortified with a letter of introduction from one of his professors, Thomas B. Morgan came to New York City in 1949 for an interview at an earnest little journal of ideas called Politics. "You've got a job," said Editor Dwight Macdonald, handing Morgan a broom. "Sweep out the room. We just folded...
...morning Bertsch opened the door to let out Peggy, his dog, for her regular 10 a.m. walk. Says he: "The next thing I knew, I was here on the floor. Eight Puerto Ricans piled in and started hitting me with broom handles. They hit poor Peggy on the head with a hammer. They picked through this drawer and found $60 worth of quarters. Then one of them bent over me with a knife, holding it to my throat. 'Shall I kill him now?' he asked another guy. And the other guy said, 'No, the boss doesn...