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...Nelson's fortitude and judgment, Admiral James sadly admits, fade from sight during the interludes on the Continent with his mistress, Emma Hamilton. "Antony and Moll Cleopatra" (as they were named by one onlooker) turned the courts of Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Naples (where husband Sir William Hamilton was ambassador) into uproar. Emma guzzled champagne and gambled with Nelson's money. Nelson, down by the stern in an alcoholic sea, roared demands for songs in his own praise, and aged, cuckolded Hamilton, merry as a grig, "performed feats of activity, hopping around the room on his backbone...
...vacation-time grind is not merely an endurance test. The steady training enables the strokes to raise their cadence to racing conditions, and it is then that the true varsity material emerges and the 20-stroke Apollos fade into obscurity...
...walking out to a practice tee in Fort Worth, a brand new idea occurred to him. He hit a few shots in what was for Ben a slight change of style. He had lost the hook (which golfers say always rolls till it reaches trouble) and found a fade (a slight drift to the right) which he could control with great accuracy...
...announcement of their marriage. His paper fires him, of course, and for the next few reels, editors, lawyers and even the handsome young couple energetically worry the question: Did the nice newsman really marry the naughty rich girl, or didn't he? As all the din begins to fade, the answer seems to be: he didn't, but he will...
Many stars are variable. The "novae" flash into sudden brilliance and then fade back to dimness. Others wax & wane regularly every few days. In a letter to Britain's Nature magazine, D. Stanley-Jones suggests that both types of uneasy stars may be natural versions of the man-made atomic bomb...