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...This hurts me more than it does you." For at the very moment when he raises his hand to strike his son, the angry father may suffer such a violent (though subconscious) emotional storm that his arm drops to his side, paralyzed. He may even collapse in a heap on the floor...
...other patients. But gradually they gain some of her hunger to become normal again, while she learns to value their simple, unheroic humanity. Under Stephania's prodding, little Thura begins to move her paralyzed fingers, while Fröken Nilsson, outraged at being called an "old heap of fat" by Stephania, goes on a rigorous diet. Only Stephania, misshapen and disappointed, must go back alone into the world, to try to win a place for herself...
Never-Never Land. Rosalind's son, Lance, was born in 1943, and the following year she had a nervous breakdown. "I just got up one morning, and fell in a heap." The collapse put Ros in the hospital for three weeks and "slowed me up long enough to realize that after a wonderful career you either retire or go on to something you've never undertaken before. I was forced to meditate on the never-never land I was living in-it's part climate, part bank account, part self." Even faced by these unaccustomed self-doubts...
John Wort had not driven the race himself: he got Elaine Heap to do the job-the championship needed someone "younger and stronger-armed." But he was still the happiest man in Jackson. That night the Silver Dollar Bar was busy till 3 a.m., and free drinks went to all who could get up to the bar. Said grinning Owner Wort: "I've been working for this for ten years. It means as much to me as having the winning horse in the Santa Anita Derby-maybe more...
...streets of Independence, Mo. Two or three reporters tagged along, peppering him with questions; they called it a "walking press conference." After breakfast, he motored to his big Kansas City office, on the eleventh floor of the Federal Reserve Bank Building. There, one day last week, beside a heap of mail, he had time for still another interview...