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...invites her husband to "make yourself comfortable, dear, in your slipper-gripper Mistletoes," or tells the children, "jump into your perma-sized skijamas, kids, while I make you some Dagwitches with diced cream and superfection strawberries?" Can he find a poor speller among those same children, who, doing his homework, writes "kar-pokits" or "kon-veen-yunt?" If so, the cross-pollenating Madison Avenue ad men would turn handsprings...
...spends the next two hours in princely recreation, mostly horseback riding, but also golf and tennis. Late in the afternoon he returns to Montellano Palace for further study in history and languages, stops in time to change and have a breathing spell before dinner. After dinner there is reading, homework and sleep...
...young Marlon, better known in those days as Bud, life was an unbroken series of contests: Who could eat fastest, hold his breath longest, open his mouth widest, tell the biggest lie, do the least homework? One day he and some other boys invented the best game of all: Who can sink farthest in the quicksand along the river bank without hollering for help? (Luckily, nobody won.) Bud and sister Frances (now Mrs. Richard Loving, a painter, living in Mundelein, Ill.) ran away from home regularly every Sunday afternoon. On Saturdays Bud rummaged devotedly through the neighbors' rubbish, came...
First across the finish line, after 4 days 13 hrs. afloat, was John Nicolas Brown's famed, 73-ft. black yawl Bolero, leader in two other Bermuda races. But when committeemen had done their homework, they found that Malay, 40th to finish in a fleet of 77, had been at sea for 5 days...
Lessons in Washington. While she was in the capital, Eva Jenkins saw little of her husband outside the hearing room. He was working an 18-hour day, holding conferences, interviewing witnesses, and studying the case after the public sessions ended. At first there was more homework than he was able to do. He had arrived in Washington with astonishingly little knowledge of the issues, procedures and pitfalls. One example of his lack of background : he did not realize that there was serious dispute about the merit of whether Joe McCarthy's headline-grabbing hearings at Fort Monmouth had been...