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...weight has long been a fascinating subject to the Khan. Before the war, he used to drop in almost daily at London's Berry Bros, (spirits), weigh himself on their famed century-old scales, and jot down the figure, carefully noting the exact items of apparel included...
...work. Pencil in hand, wetting his big thumb from time to time as he turned the pages, he read the speech over to himself, speaking softly, gesturing slightly. In the unflattering light of the little reading lamp, his weary face looked seamed and haggard. As he read he would jot down little interpolations, asides and personal stage directions. This was the old ; experienced actor, going through the final" rehearsal. Much depended on this speech...
...ledgers and fled to the bars of west London-the Cock, the Crown, the Cheshire Cheese, the Café Royal-where he found his friends Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Yeats, Symons and sometimes his French idol, Poet Paul Verlaine. At the first pub he would order absinthe, then quickly jot down the verses that had swum in his head during the day. That done, he would hurry on to a small, cheap Soho restaurant called the Poland, where he conducted one of the strangest, most fruitless courtships in literary history...
...months - Judge Marvin Jones, smooth, bland, quiet ex-Congressman from Texas, who left the bench six months ago to aid Czar of Czars Jimmy Byrnes. He took time out to preside over the international food conference at Hot Springs, Va. (TIME, June 14). Jones apparently will have not one jot or tittle more power than Chester Davis...
...Asked to jot down a few characteristics the term "meatball" brings to mind, some of the Seniors replied: "A red-headed fatso in a green double-breasted suit leading a conga line at Eliot House . . . guy who walks a round Symphony Hall at intermission with a simpish grin . . . the people who made up this questionnaire...