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...Amsterdam, I became another number for the baggage retrieval services. Jetlagged and wearied from flight delays and air turbulence, with my rusty French I tried to convey to the unsympathetic baggage retrieval workers that I desperately needed my suitcases. I filled out my address, identified my luggage from a chart of pocketbooks, duffel bags and suitcases and was sent home with a shrug and callous wait-and-see attitude. I remained cool for the first 24 hours, fully confident that the system would work--that the combination of my clearly printed name on the suitcases as well as those white...
...tell him about the two kidney-stone attacks over the past five years that sent me writhing in pain to hospital emergency rooms. I happen to mention an increased sensitivity to salt in my diet, resulting in a parched mouth, information that he dutifully jots down in my chart while observing, "Maybe your body is talking to you." Then he tells me that salt tends to precipitate calcium, a common component of kidney stones, out of the bloodstream into the kidneys. He informs me that excessive vitamin C can do the same thing. I note that my kidney specialist...
...Never Smile Again, by Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey, ranks No. 1 on Billboard's first hit-singles chart...
Having scored a breakthrough with their chart-topping 1965 album Rubber Soul--the record whose elegant lyrics and luminous melodies lifted them forever out of the world of simple teen idols and into the realm of art--the Beatles, exhausted, decided to stop touring. After a final concert in San Francisco in 1966, they would come together again as a group only in recording studios. But there they spun out ever more elaborate masterpieces: the tripped-out psychedelic special Revolver in 1966; the breathtaking (at the time) concept epic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967; the strangely...
...later gave classes in which she taught such actors as Bette Davis and Gregory Peck how to move. (Richard Boone claimed that to die onscreen, he simply did a one-count Graham fall.) But nothing could deflect her from what she believed to be her sacred mission: to "chart the graph of the heart" through movement. "That driving force of God that plunges through me is what I live for," she wrote, and believed every word of it. Others believed too, partly because of the hurricane-strength force of her personality--the Graham company would always bear an unsettling resemblance...