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...Spirit of Bond Street. Weizmann greatly admired the British, was often accused by his fellow Zionists of imitating them (he wore Bond Street shirts and acquired a marked habit of understatement in his speech). In 1946, when he favored the British partition plan, David Ben-Gurion opposed him; Weizmann was forced out as head of the Zionist organization...
Away from Baby. Last week, the night before the squad left for Athens, Ga., 24-year-old Choo Choo Charlie moved out of his home, to be sure of getting a good night's sleep. His new, five-weeks-old son had developed a distracting habit of hollering his head off. On Saturday, Choo Choo chugged on the field with the other blue-jerseyed Tar Heels for a dogfight with Georgia-and they found themselves trailing by 7 to 0 at halftime...
Nothing really affected father Sitwell's innate dignity-not even his habit of crawling on all fours around his house, a Malacca cane clenched between his teeth, in order to observe his latest building schemes from a fresh angle. But once, as Osbert remembers it, he did demean his noble station-when his butler, whose wages were overdue, politely requested an accounting. Shocked to the core by this impudence, Sir George stalked the shrinking varlet slowly across the room, finally whispered in his ear the terrible words: "Shut your ugly...
...Edinburgh described tests on a new "analgesic" called C.B. II (short for 4:4 -diphenyl -6 -morpho-linoheptan-3-one hydrochloride). It has eased pain from heart disease, sciatica, gangrene, pleurisy, other notorious pain causers. So far no serious disadvantages have shown up. Apparently the drug is not habit-forming...
...never acquired the ballplayer's habit of chewing tobacco (he likes pistachio nuts) nor the ballplayer's trait for pinching a penny. As a result, he has hung on to only about a fifth of the $500,000 he has earned from baseball. (This year he will make about $67,000.) He owns a few blue chip stocks, a small annuity, and until recently a part interest with two of his brothers in DiMaggio's Famous Restaurant, a seafood place on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf...