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...enough water to sink to a depth of 150 ft. It was maneuvered directly beneath the Glomar Explorer's moon pool and held in place by stanchions from the mother ship. Pipe from the ship reached down to the barge and attached itself to the giant grappling claws, which resembled a series of four or six interconnected ice tongs hanging from a long platform. Then the ship's crew began to feed length after length of pipe through the hole. By the time the claw reached the Soviet submarine 16,000 ft. below, the pipe alone weighed more...
Only Suspect. San Francisco police found a blood-stained claw hammer and a pair of bloody scissors, along with a bloodstained shirt and pair of slacks, in a cardboard box on the porch of Eben's apartment. Eben, police believe, argued with his sister over $5,000 that was due her shortly from her mother's estate, saying that he wanted the money to go to Spain. The police theorize that when she refused him the money, he killed her. "Eben Gossage is our only suspect at this point," said Homicide Inspector Kenneth Mannly. Grim argues that...
...Yorker then than now. Gill's memories are mostly ebullient. They include, of course, Ross, that "aggressively ignorant" Midwesterner who bullied The New Yorker into shape. Thurber's portrait remains definitive, but Gill adds amusing embellishments. Once Gill included the Tennysonian phrase "nature, red in tooth and claw" in a "Talk of the Town" item. Ross's notorious innocence in literary matters ("Is Moby Dick the man or the whale?") prompted him to change the reference to "nature, red in claw and tooth." Gill explains as best he can: "His literal-mindedness being what...
EVERYBODY HAS a theory about what Napoleon did with his hand stuck inside his coat: more accurate accounts have it that he had a bad case of gout or rheumatism, that his hand was relatively useless. More morbid conjecturers claim that he had a bad case of the claw--his hand tightened up into a gruesome eagle-grip. But the wildest theory I've heard yet was that he had a thirty-eight inch cock. Of course this is mere speculation--nobody really knows for sure what compelled Napoleon to do all the things he did. But George Bernard Shaw...
...Candide-like rock singer, Billy Shears (Ted Neeley), who meets and marries Strawberry Fields (Kay Cole)-the characters are christened from Beatles' songs. But Billy loses her to death and his own integrity to Maxwell's Silver Hammermen, Jack (Allan Nicholls), Sledge (William Parry) and Claw (E.G. Gibson). They are dressed in something resembling chain mail and apparently represent the Hell's Angels of the commercial music business. Billy's true bete noire is an extremely comely black temptress named Lucy. She is played by Alaina Reed, who is a richly dramatic alto and could qualify...