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...agitation so alarmed his wife that she sent for State Police Chief Walter Williams. Chief Williams found Mr. Smith pacing his living room, muttering nervously that someone was trying to get him. Abruptly he excused himself and went into the kitchen, yanked a long-bladed knife from a drawer and stabbed himself over the heart and in the neck. Williams rushed him to a doctor. The wounds were not serious. After they had been dressed and Mr. Smith had been bandaged up, Williams took him to St. John's Hospital...
...Casa Maury and brilliant carrot-haired Editor Brendan Bracken of The Banker. Spotting "Winston," the whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever been seen at a top-drawer Mayfair ball. Each of the young men, fine apple-cheeked lads mostly and quick to blush, was given a Leap-Year favor which he had to decide on the spot to wear either red side out or green side out. On the red side was lettered, "Stop. Do not propose...
...this was child's play. Joanne had much bigger things in the back of her head and (partly written) in the back of her bureau drawer. For Joanne's 72-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eva Snapp, had been telling her stories of the Ohio River floods for years, and busy little Joanne had been jotting them down. Some time shortly after infancy, Joanne had decided to do a scenario based on grandma's flood experiences. Since then, it has been her life work...
...about it and writing bits of it now and then as long as I can remember." She even enlisted her father and mother and the neighbors to give a hand with dialogue, touch up the grammar. "Sometimes," she says, "I'd find in the back of a bureau drawer an old piece of paper with a couple of paragraphs on it, and I'd say, 'Oh, that!' Then I'd rewrite it and try to fit it into the rest...
...they pleased. Unlike some other charitarians, Father Rice asks neither hymn singing, work nor money from his guests, declaring that he aims to give them "the privacy which most social agencies disallow." His flophouse costs $500 a month, which Father Rice raises, keeps in an unlocked drawer. The drawer has never been robbed...