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Never one to neglect business, Cap took the little girl to his store every day for a while, sometimes let her sleep at night on a cot in his second-floor storeroom near what she recalls as "a row of peculiar long boxes." Her father told her they were "dry goods," but Lady Bird later learned they were coffins...
...cake, and wore little-boy suits. When he became too obstreperous and was sold to the zoo at the age of 2½, he was so miserable with his clothes off, and so afraid of the other animals, that his foster mother came and slept in a cot by his side every night for three weeks...
Moving to Manhattan, she shared an apartment for a while, but then began lugging a portable cot around with her and mooching space where she could-in friends' apartments, public relations offices, studio lofts. She swept the floor at the Cherry Lane Theater and took acting lessons from Drama Coach Allan Miller and Eli Rill. She dyed her hair red, wore white makeup, and dressed in black tights, feathered boas and 1925 hats. Barbra has never striven to be inconspicuous...
...command. After a few weeks under Peck's care he-come to think of it, Colonel Bliss commits suicide. But take Little Jim (Bobby Darin), a sad sack in a flat funk until Peck shoots him full of s.p. For about ten minutes Bobby lies on a cot making faces like Harpo Marx, and then zowie! he's cured. He flies back to his unit, takes off on a bombing mission, runs into flak and- Well, who cares about the patients when nurses like Angie Dickinson are on duty-not to mention Tony Curtis...
...their books on France, Andre Malraux, Albert Guerard (pere), Genevieve Tabouis (of the leftist L'Oeuvre), and the Popular Front's Minister of Air Pierre Cot argued that the doctrinaire opposition of these men to the Third Republic--their verbal and physical violence against it--had demoralized the French: in incompetence of her generals in the brief military campaign only made more swift the country's by then inevitable collapse. Since many on the Right went on to become collaborators with the Germans--at least in associating themselves with the Vichy government--and since, after the Liberation, almost...