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Ultimate Desecration. But even as his empire dwindled, Hearst maintained editorial control. Each morning he sat in nis San Simeon study, spread the Hearst-papers on a priceless Persian rug and turned the pages with his slippered feet. Memos continued to clatter out over his private Teletype. He kept visitors hanging around San Simeon for days before granting them the audience they sought...
...Ethel and their entourage watched bare-breasted girls performing a "Dance of Joy" under eucalyptus trees, saw a three-hour parade that included 2,000 extra men drafted into the Ivory Coast army just for the occasion. At dinner, the guests sat on gold chairs, ate to the luxurious clatter of gold knives and forks, listened to Chopin on hifi...
When television first barged so rudely onto the U.S. entertainment scene, many radio stations flipped the keys shut on their studio mikes, set their turntables to twirling eternally, hired the disk jockey to titillate the teen-ager with pointless prattle. But there are notable signs that the clatter of the platter is gradually being muted. Its replacement: serious chatter...
Moments later, hurrying down the dusty street, she was followed by a swarm of flies and by a clatter of little girls who pleaded: "Juste cinq francs, madame!" Lady Bird bravely tried to show admiration for Kayar's tiny, windowless, wooden shacks and the village sewing machine, but as she confessed later: "What bothered me most was the fact that I knew we were leaving soon, but these people would have to go on living with these flies and in this poverty...
Pilot Norman L. Widen, his eyes corked black to cut glare, swung his twin-engined P-38 sharply over a German-held airfield in Tunis, put an Me 109 in his gunsight and blasted away. Just as the 109 coughed black smoke, a sudden clatter of shells peppered Widen's armor plate from behind, clipped his helmet and set his own plane afire. Quickly, Widen pulled back on his throttles and bailed out. As he drifted toward the ground, Widen saw his assailant: another Me 109 was circling him menacingly. Mindful of stories that Nazis had been known...