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...only question to ponder in Something's Afoot is which guest at a mid-'30s English country manor will be stiffed next, and how. Will the hilarious mode of demise be an exploding balus trade, a poisoned dart, a lethally hid den gas vent or what? As for plot, the maze is the message...
...resumed their grip on the city in 1530, a purge of republicans followed, and a cutthroat named Alessandro Corsini was hired to murder Michelangelo-who had vocally sided with the republican cause. According to an old tradition, the great sculptor, who was then at work on the Medici tombs, hid in the bell tower of a church on the other side of the Arno. But ten years ago, a memoir was discovered in the handwriting of Giovanni Battista Figiovanni, the prior of San Lorenzo who was in charge of the Medici tombs project. "I saved him from death," the prior...
...McGraw is a businessman, he is one after Bill Veeck's heart. It may not be just a boy's game, but last year while the Braves were taking batting practice, McGraw hid out of sight with a hose and periodically sprinkled then-Brave Ralph Garr, who kept staring at the sunny sky in amazement. You often get that kind of thing in baseball. Once before a game in St. Louis, Bob Uecker, then a journeyman catcher, now an ABC announcer, borrowed a tuba from a band that was playing on the field and used it to shag...
...these transcripts of conversations. Kissinger spirited the documents off to the Pocantico Hills, N.Y., estate of Nelson Rockefeller, for whom he had long worked. But when Kissinger was reminded by one of his legal advisers that classified information must be retained on Government property, he retrieved the papers and hid them in Washington...
Copeland, who had served in Britain's Parachute Regiment, was ordered court-martialed by F.N.L.A. Leader Holden Roberto, and shot by a firing squad. "Callan" reportedly escaped and hid out in the bush, nursing a leg wound. The British mercenaries called him "completely ruthless" and a "homicidal maniac." They said he spent much of his time shooting black tribesmen just...