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...Chinese soldiers blinked when a tall, ungainly, towheaded young Briton with bright hazel eyes and an Oxford voice introduced himself with a visiting card phonetically inscribed "Au Dung" and wandered through battle areas discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges with his companion. Novelist Christopher Isherwood ("Y Hsiao Wu"). In 1936 Icelanders watched the same outlander read the works of Lord Byron while jogging through their bleak countryside on a pony. In 1937 he worked as a censor in the Spanish Loyalist Government. In 1940 this unusual apparition settled improbably in Brooklyn...
...Massey's barbershop at 3306 Main Street, Kansas City, a big, muscular man, generously daubed with powder and witch hazel, eased himself out of a barber's chair. He had just had a haircut, shave, shampoo, scalp massage and shoe shine-"the works." Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. But last week his pay envelope held $140, and he now frankly enjoyed these little male luxuries-everything except a manicure...
...turned toward Ernest (as his father and aunt call him, not Ernie). Aunt Mary got to talking about how Ernest on his last trip home told her that he didn't feel above any of them when she asked him how it felt to be a celebrity, and Hazel Frist put in: "There just ain't a bit of that in him, Aunt Mary." Aunt Mary said Ernest was born with a wanderlust, that she knew it all along. Mr. Pyle said: "He liked to ride horseback but he didn't like to work with them. Horses...
Born. To Maureen O'Hara, 23, redhaired, hazel-eyed cinema eyeful, and Lieut. Will Price, 31, onetime film dialoguer: a daughter, their first child; in Holly wood. Name: "either Bridget, Megan, or Emily." Weight...
...from the banks of the Wabash, close to the Illinois border, 30 miles north of Terre Haute. Dana's red bricked Main Street is two blocks long. The rest of the town is mostly tree-shaded front-yards and frame houses. Dana's news-center is Mrs. Hazel Shepard's house. She is Dana's telephone operator, and the switchboard is in her parlor...