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...authorities on Bornholm, who boarded the trawler, inspected the poison and decided it should be tipped back into the sea in a designated dumping area. Branick, though, was in a bad way. "I was fine until I came into the warmth below deck," he says. "Then it started to itch and burn like hell on my back. I took off my clothes. The others said, 'What's that on your back?' It was a red spot the size of a child's fist." Fishing - Branick's job since he was 16 - has long been regarded as one of the world...
...mantle of Mrs. Franklin. It is a common-law union never recorded in church for fear of bigamy charges, but it prospers. While her husband nurtures his publications, she runs their store, selling everything from writing materials to tea and coffee to a well-known homemade ointment for "the itch." They had two children, a boy who died of smallpox at age 5 and a girl Sarah, known as Sally, who outlived both her parents...
DIED. GEORGE AXELROD, 81, author of saucy, acerbic plays and screenplays; in Los Angeles. Once a radio and TV writer, he helped set the tone for pop culture's postwar flirtation with infidelity and angst in his Broadway farce The Seven Year Itch. The film version, with Marilyn Monroe, brought him to Hollywood, where he wrote the scripts for Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's and that classic spiked cocktail of melodrama, satire and treason, The Manchurian Candidate. His two films as writer-director, Lord Love a Duck and The Secret Life of an American Wife, are revered by comedy...
Menand will have ample opportunity to scratch that academic itch at Harvard: in addition to a graduate seminar on “Art and Thought of the Cold War,” Menand is to teach an undergraduate lecture course on the James siblings next spring—and Buell said he had expressed a desire to teach “something in the Core as quickly as possible...
...awareness that any pair of eyes could be reading the same thing,” says Liu. “Whenever I want to keep something secret, I just wax incoherent, undecipherable poetic that only I can understand, and that leaves everyone else in the dark, scratching an unlocated itch.” To see what she means, head to www.cmliu.com...