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...million European readers in on the details of her four-year whirl with Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, 59, who took her from cellar cafes to stardom in The Roots of Heaven. "What can a young woman see in an elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost causes. He was like an orphan to me. I was attracted by that poor little rich...
...Eichmann's body, plunging out of sight into the room below, swung slightly at the end of the rope. The corpse was cut down, carried to a corner of the prison grounds where, in swirls of ground fog, it was thrust into an aluminum oven with a chimney at one end. A gas fire burned for two hours, reducing Eichmann's light frame to a handful of ashes. While the body was cremated, black smoke poured into the sky. None of the watching officials and reporters said a word, but the memory of the evil holocausts of Auschwitz...
...most effect on urban populations that have been predisposed to the actions of pollen by such stimuli as auto exhaust fumes, chimney smoke and smog...
...built the Greater Pittsburgh Airport. From his bed at night, Griggs could see the planes take off from the end of the airport runway about 3,000 ft. from his house and head straight toward his window, and then rise in a scary whoosh about 150 ft. above his chimney. "I would be wakened and couldn't go back to sleep until the planes had stopped," he said. "When the windows were open in the summer, the planes would stop conversation inside the house itself. I have had people seated at my dinner table, and they'd look...
...Milk. Cash was scarce. "I don't think I bought a steak for ten years," she recalls. But life was rich. While Henry taught pathology at Yale, they lived in a series of rented houses in Bethany, Conn. The Buntings skied, hiked, played tennis, spent long nights banding chimney swifts in a New Haven heating plant. For $200 they managed to buy 50 acres on a Vermont mountaintop. built a tar-paper shack retreat for $26. In 1940 the first of their four children (a daughter, three sons) was born...