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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...
What had doubtless seemed simple generosity to President Ford when he gave his Alaska timberwolf fur coat to an ad miring Leonid Brezhnev seemed to them defiling of an endangered species. Let ters and telegrams of protest greeted Ford on his return to Washington. It turned out that the Chief Executive was saved by the skin of his coat. While wolves in the Lower 48 states are on the endangered list, the 50,000 or so timber wolves that inhabit Alaska are not, so Ford emerged blameless on a technicality. The coat was the gift of an Alaska furrier named...
...take. The first words I can remember in my dad's house were very simple but very direct. Clean up your plate before you get up from the table. And that is still pretty good advice." One waited for the suggestions to purchase a good heavy coat, drink a glass of warm milk before retiring and feed a colchand starve a fever. Ford came close. "Guard your health," he warned. "This will materi ally strengthen our attack on inflation...
...felt lacquered from head to foot, like that naked ephebe, the bright clou of a pagan procession, who died of dermal asphyxia in his coat of golden varnish...
...probably the greatest sculptor in U.S. history. Readers of this month's Art in America were electrified to learn from an article by Art Historian Rosalind Krauss that since Smith's death seven of his late sculptures -large constructions of welded steel, finished with a white coat of primer, preparatory to painting-have been ground back to bare metal, while other finished polychrome works were simply left in the open fields outside his studio at Bolton's Landing, N.Y., until their surfaces rusted into disintegration...