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...Eskimo babies, past Amazonian poison darts and Japanese dollhouses, past lost cultures and found treasures. President James Buchanan's saddle is over in the corner, next to a statue of a samurai warrior. Meditating Buddhas sit on top of cabinets filled with spears and mandolins. Wilcox opens a drawer full of shrunken heads, some human, some sloth, some monkey. He holds up an apple-size human specimen and strokes the long black hair. "See how soft the hair is?" he marvels. "They removed the skull and then they shrank the head slowly, using smoke and heat, all the while...
Audiences are doing just that, and critics too. Crimes of the Heart, Henley's first full-length play, brought her a Broadway hit and a Pulitzer Prize-she keeps the certificate in a desk drawer. Out of another drawer came Am I Blue, a one-acter she wrote as a sophomore at Southern Methodist University; it recently opened at Manhattan's Circle Repertory Company. The Miss Firecracker Contest, her second full-length play, has completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers...
...still in its infancy, but David Sarnoff, then president of RCA, donated to Roosevelt an experimental device similar to machines used in making sound films. The microphone was hidden in Roosevelt's desk lamp, and it could be switched on or off by a button in a drawer. Roosevelt used the machine between August and November mainly to record 14 press conferences, where no direct quotation was ever allowed. Butow speculates that on several occasions F.D.R. simply forgot to turn the machine off, and so it caught him in some revealing moments. Samples...
...attitude today is "If you've got it, don't flaunt it." A key is rarely sported on a vest chain or dangled haughtily over a decolletage. Says Delgrosso: "You see it at law school and medical school interviews. After that it goes back in the drawer." All perfectly fitting, suggests Harvard's John Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus. The key is not for success, he says. "It is for vision, the The founder, John Heath quest for understanding...
...Allen decided to intercept the envelope in the first place, or why he was asked to sign a receipt for it without being told of the contents. Allen told his secretary, Irene Derus, that the money should be turned over to appropriate officials. She placed it in a four-drawer safe and, says the report, "Allen did not thereafter see the envelope." Shortly after Jan. 21, Allen told both his wife and Secretary of the Navy John Lehman about the incident...