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...Manila went 238 gilt jeweled watches (value: $3,022), 46 gold jeweled watches (value: $2,504), serum blood grouping, parts for pyrometer equipment, examination papers, 826 feet of motion-picture film, fountain pens and pencils, TIME magazine, shoe-machine awls and needles, Leghorn hatching eggs (to improve the island strain), two surgical stockings, orchids, many another item...
...caused shoals of his enemies to be murdered, tortured, kidnapped, imprisoned. They claim he slaps Cabinet Ministers in the face, beats up priests, kicks irksome subjects in the crotch. (It is said that for tiresome gabbling he once booted even Crown Prince Mohammed Reza into a palace fountain.) Iran is ruled entirely by fear, they insist; bribery is still prevalent, taxation overpowering; Iran's 136-man National Assembly, the Majlis, and all Cabinets are solidly enstooged. By this time, they add, the One-Man New Deal has turned into a One-Man Corporative State, owning everything worth owning...
...Town Hall the German commander unslung his service pistol and laid it on the Burgomaster's desk with a flourish. With an equal flourish Cock Sparrow Max unslung his service fountain pen and laid it beside the pistol. He refused, however, to shake hands...
Cronin usually writes his novels in three to five months, though their germination period may be five to ten years. But The Keys of the Kingdom has been in his mind since boyhood, took eight months to rewrite four times. He writes with a fountain pen and a driving will. Writing is a "grey monotony of hell" punctuated by occasional outbursts of frayed nerves, while Cronin's three sons ("all named after saints") wonder "if the world wouldn't be better off without authors." Mrs. Cronin, also a doctor, who has a phenomenal memory for names, places, dates...
...draftee whose number is 8962. ∽∽ Paramount urged a screen test on Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered...