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...going well at the Casanova Hotel ("They charge by the hour; nobody could afford to live there") near Paris' Les Halles. The girls are busy and happy, and Irma the Sweet is the busiest and happiest. Then disaster strikes. A new flic comes on the beat-Lemmon playing a flatfoot so square that he even pays for the apples he filches. He is scandalized by the hustlers' bustling and phones headquarters for a raid. Soon the arrondissement is ringing with the soldo, soldo, soldo klaxon of the police wagon, and the minuscule lobby of the Casanova looks like...
Among the first bargains to be snapped up were a 29-volume set of Dickens ($6) a 10-volume Poe ($1.25) and a 17-volume complete Hawthorne ($3). An unidentified 'Cliffie out-maneuvered two Cambridge matrons for a rare $4 set of Casanova's Memoires...
...Koven was enrolled at the University of Cincinnati as a prodigy of 14, but he took his tuition money and decamped for Germany, where he dabbled in piano and composition and found his "love life crys tallized at 15" ("I made Don Juan and Casanova look like amateurs"). When his money ran out, his mother sent him the price of a ticket home. He gave up composition for painting, painting for newspaper work in New Jersey, finally drifted to WNYC, where "they've regretted it ever since. They can't stand me, but they can't fire...
...household of 63 servants and five horses. The narrative he wrote captures his era as bawdily and well as do Hogarth's engravings. But in any good memoir it is the man, not the times, whose flavor dominates. Hickey, neither as deep as Boswell nor as intense as Casanova, still was something other than a fool with a strong constitution and a good memory. He had no malice and little self-deception, much humor and courage. While Portuguese sailors caught in a hurricane might, as he reported with British condescension, abandon their sails and flock round their priest...
After a painstaking search, the CAB located several witnesses who had heard the plane. Their accounts, plus the flight log and messages from plane to ground, pointed to one conclusion: Captain Lavrinc had been flying off course for 30 minutes, or since the time he had cruised over the "Casanova" control point. There he was scheduled to make a 20° left turn. Instead he continued on a death course. From then on, the investigation centered on Pilot George Lavrinc, 32, and his private life...