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...free-lancers have the same habits. Robert Lewis Taylor (no kin to Frank) starts to work at 1 a.m., takes a two-hour nap at 3, works until breakfast at 8:30, then finishes for the day at noon. Between articles Taylor has written seven books, on everything from Winston Churchill to W. C. Fields, also writes occasional fiction and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.* Many another successful free-lancer carves out a specialized area for himself, e.g., J.D. Ratcliff, science and medicine, Howard Whitman, popular sociology. But even the "specialists" go far afield if they come...
...confused with D. B. Wyndham Lewis (no kin), humorist and biographer (Francois Villon...
...April 1945. Kim, then 21, said: "Promise me-this you owe to everything I have lived for-that never will the thought of me come between you and Life." The hardbought truths of Kim's goodbye are valid for all the world's bereaved next of kin...
...haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right out, "Kin we see it naow?" "Yup," says the foreman. The two men brace themselves, walk shoulder to shoulder to the front door of the main ranch house, open it, walk through the bedroom, open the door beyond. Timidly Cowboy Douglas peeks in. His eyes bulge. His jaw drops...
...State law permits superintendents of state institutions to supply medical schools with the corpses of inmates, provided no next of kin is known...