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...Novak begins a thesis on sex, and Tony Randall, James Garner and Howard Duff turn up on her index cards in Boys' Night...
Argot Born. One day in '92, sitting around the Anytime Saloon, Reg and Tom Burger and the Duff brothers started putting some of their old Scotch-Irish dialect words together with some on-the-spot code words into a language that the enemies-be they womenfolk, their rivals, their elders, their children-could not possibly understand. It caught on, rapidly losing its value as a code; soon "Boontlingers" and their friends were eagerly trying to shark (con) each other with new inventions...
Danehy further charged that an unnamed doctor "from Mexico or South America" was responsible. If the incident occured again, Danehy said, "I'm personally going down there and give him a kick in the duff, and maybe some anatomy professor can tell him where the duffis...
...Recover From. "Jackson's trouble," says a sympathetic lawyer who has been in and out of the case, "is that he sat on his duff right up until the last minute. In his blustering frontier way, he didn't figure anything could happen to a guy of his wealth over so small a sum owed." Now, in all likelihood, there isn't anyone for him to recover from any more. Primock is dead, and Sears has already successfully contended that it did not know of or endorse any of Primock's actions. Besides, Jackson no longer...
...first Viscount Norwich (Alfred Duff Cooper) and Lady Diana Cooper...