Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...articles for magazines (Look, Reader's Digest) that had helped to bankroll the trip, he was unable to spare six months of his two-year writing time for the two operations that eventually restored almost complete vision through bottle-thick spectacles. Against dwindling sight and funds, Gunther, a hunt-and-peck typist, had his typewriter equipped with outsize keys, used ever stronger eyedrops that enabled him to read and write only for two hours at a stretch. Says Jane: "The house was littered with magnifying glasses...
Last week, grasping at a temporary solution, the city cleaned out two abandoned school buildings, brought in new furniture and began to hunt for ways of handling boys with some of the sorriest records in town (assaults on principals, sexual advances, purse-snatching...
Victor Borge: To be excruciatingly funny, Pianist-Comic Victor Borge needs only to munch a sticky peanut-butter sandwich, or hunt for a B-flat for the score he is pirating from the great composers. For this season's one-night stand on CBS, the theater's longest-run one-man show (849 performances on Broadway) shared his whopping $200,000 fee with an orchestra and guest stars. But the evening was mostly comedy, and, comic or serious, it was all Borge...
...endearment they have been taught to call Nehru. Less interested in making loaded impressions, King Zahir, on a 15-day state visit, rushed busily between polo and field-hockey matches, a horse show, small-game shooting, a glider flight. A slated highlight of Zahir's trip: a tiger hunt, for which his striped target, previously located and fattened on goats and buffalo meat, unwarily awaited the King's bullet. Alighting at Palam Airport, Cabot Lodge was greeted as a long-lost friend by his oldtime U.N. wrangling foe, V. K. Krishna Menon, now India's Defense Minister...
...minutes." On another occasion he was persuaded by British-born Author and Actress Ethel Le Vane to send some silk ties to famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson, whom she and Getty had just visited while preparing their book, Collector's Choice, a well-reviewed narrative of their hunt for art treasures. Getty caught Collaborator Le Vane writing "From Paul and Ethel" on the accompanying card. He immediately demanded that she pay half the cost of the ties, on the ground that she was getting half the credit for the gift...