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...corner-OF DEATH. The scene shifts to a tangle of barbed wire, the detritus of trench warfare, the corpses of trees and, half-buried in the churned and muddy ground, the corpses of men. One of them slowly comes alive-he is a soldier lying, now, on his bunk, playing a mouth organ...
Prince & Papa. Edgar travels the equivalent of ten times around the world every year, catches up on sleep by snapping on a black eyeshade and stretching out on a bunk in the company plane. A confidant and partygoing pal of several world leaders, he has become the U.S.'s semi-official ambassador to Ghana's Red-leaning dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. He also finds time to serve on three U.S. presidential commissions and to supervise the nonprofit Kaiser Foundation Medical Plan, in which 1,200,000 members pay a monthly fee for the services of 1,000 doctors...
...anyone-that means a collision at sea. On the Stolt Dagali (which means "Pride of Dagali," a Norwegian town), bound for Newark with a crew of 43 and a cargo of vegetable oil, Seaman Sverre Thun-berg, 19, was jolted awake by that same sound, looked down from his bunk and saw sea water rising fast beneath him; Thunberg grabbed his toothbrush and razor, raced above decks and leaped into a lifeboat, even then being lowered over the side...
...babbles that he can hear the screams of U.S. Jews who are being killed or castrated in the streets because of his crime. Such are his demented dreams that previously friendly guards have all but stopped playing dominoes with him, and Ruby spends hours hunched over on his bunk playing solitaire. Ruby has tried three times to kill himself-by battering his head against a wall, ripping up his trousers to make a noose, and poking his finger in an electric light socket. Ruby's onetime pride and joy, the tawdry Carousel Club, has been sold, and Mrs. Grant...
...Ford II, 44, threw caution aside and took a $1,600 flyer in a Broadway musical, Sugar City, due in March. The auto heir has backed "two or three" other shows, none of which earned him a dime. But, as Granddad used to say, history is more or less bunk...