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...moment. Whizzing across a Vienna lake, he suddenly saw a great gaping hole directly in front of him, frantically dragged his heels and lifted his toes, applied the brakes and was able to stop just in time. It is still a tough job: "I have to stop on a dime-and I don't mean a nickel." Three years ago, at the Center, he "missed the dime," pitched over the footlights, broke...
Barbara Hutton, $40,000,000 five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...
...Yardley and Sulka disappear in a puff of smoke. The ruddy executive becomes a pathetic, puzzled little fellow in a battered fedora, clutching a suitcase in his arms and sweating profusely. He's probably run down at the heel, too. Hell, Harold, you might as well give him a dime and put him on the subway...
...better judgment of his advisers, Governor Hickenlooper campaigned in 1938 by telling a joke on himself. A drugstore clerk refused to charge 10? worth of asafetida to the Hickenlooper account. "Take it for nothing," said the clerk, "I wouldn't write both asafetida and Hickenlooper for a dime...
...give you some instances. Now I got married when I was a regular man and we said, 'What shall we do to pay up our old bills? If we get married now we'll have the furniture to pay for, and I haven't got a dime.' I said: 'Wait a while and see if I can peel off these debts.' She said: 'I'll work a while and maybe on both salaries we'll catch up.' So it happened that way, and then she was in a family...