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...incinerator of original Nazi design" received an unexpected guest one day in 1946: the corpse of Hermann Goering, dead by his own hand (cyanide) as the gallows waited for him. After the incinerator had done its work, the ashes were shoveled into a can and dumped on a trash heap. No epitaph was written, but one was deserved: "He Was the Life & Soul of the Party...
...miles south over the rough road to Manila, where he spends the day doing errands for his lepers, visiting their relations and raising money. The four years he has been there have made quite a difference in Tala. The village is a community now, instead of a human dump heap. Though the population has increased by more than 100%, the lepers are well housed and well fed, with a library, two schools, a nursery, weekly dances, movies and an elected government which Father Hofstee (a man not without humor) calls "the cleanest in the country...
...pictures, such mechanical fakery should never be necessary. Lanza's idea of dieting, based on his own theory that proteins can add no weight, is to pile chicken legs, half-pound chunks of rare steak and a mound of barbecued kidneys on his plate, devour them and then heap on a second helping. For breakfast, he holds down to a steak and four to six eggs. He usually skips lunch. With great effort ("I go crazy"), he resists the spaghetti, ravioli and pizza he dearly loves, and the beer he loves scarcely less. In the old days, Lanza once...
...Paris. An adoring prostitute kept him in meals and clothes; a mousy ingenue housed him (he left her pregnant); a nymphomaniac stage star married him and later took an overdose of morphine after he divorced her. Glandular charm plus superficial talent took him to the top of the theatrical heap. But inside, he was a psychic bankrupt who needed several stiff slugs of cognac to get past the first act. When he dies on the last page, it seems only reasonable to conclude that his bartender will miss him most...
...heap, Patti is a modest girl who travels with one of her seven sisters. She shrewdly believes in taking it easy. Now she only releases four records a year: "If you don't rush things, it gives the distributors and [disc] jockeys time to work one up before another comes along. In this business, you can get awfully hurt if you are too ambitious...