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...continuing until the job was finished. "Now I find it difficult to enjoy myself when I'm not working," he says. "And I am not able to distract myself when I'm waiting around on a set. I sit and stare at the walls or walk around and bump into my trailer...
...Ronnie." Every July on Nancy's birthday, Reagan calls David Jones' Hollywood flower shop and has a bouquet sent to Edith Davis, his mother-in-law. Says the florist: "He thanks her for giving him Nancy." Last Election Day, when the First Lady was still wobbly from a bad bump on the head received two days earlier, the President fretted so much that he ignored early exit-poll results and wanted to cancel three important press interviews he had scheduled. At Camp David, the two former movie stars cozy up on a sofa in the dark, holding hands and sharing...
...entanglement. Can he write in the Village? Well, he's trying, but his roiling thoughts won't order themselves tamely and obediently into fiction. There he sits at his desk, staring idly out of the window, listening to his middle-aged frame creak, finding a suspicious bump on his scrotum, brooding about traditional marriage: "battling, shrieking and occupying each other's brains like some terrible tumor until one of them dies." A theme here? Apparently not; he goes on to muse about middle age ("On the whole we are all quite game. It's life itself...
...extra cover in the room; she got up and forgot all about the platform. The next step there was nothing there, and she did a header into a chair. She has got quite an egg concealed under her hairdo." The First Lady was stoic with reporters. Said she: "My bump is gone. I feel fine...
...racing scene, which is, by some standards, a bit eccentric. "In America all of the race courses are flat, lefthanded, about a mile around and usually dirt," notes Cauthen. In England, "they are just where they laid them out 200 years ago. If there was a hump or a bump there, it just went with it." Some tracks go uphill, some down, others have odd turns or unusually long straightaways. During his first year, like a golfer studying a new course, he trudged around every track, memorizing each idiosyncrasy...