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...imperious boarder who tried to teach Augie principles of good behavior. But Augie tailed along with neighborhood hoodlums, stole pennies from newsstands, quarters from a shop where he briefly worked, ladies' handbags in a planned robbery. While older brother Simon, out to get rich, was learning to knot a bow tie and be charming to ladies, Augie was working the angles at some very odd jobs (coifing dogs, stealing books, smuggling immigrants over the Canadian border) and wondering what life was all about...
Black Memories. Prison officials gave Carlo a new suit, shoes, shirt, and a tie which he found he had forgotten how to knot. For his labor during his 19 years, one month and 28 days of imprisonment, the warden handed him 10,360 lire (about $16). Italian law gave him no other claim against the government. "I'm as poor as Job," said Carlo. "I must find work." Back in Marzano di Nola last week, Carlo greeted his relatives but refused to stay. "I want to get away from these black memories," he said...
...genius"-would rather beat him than anyone else for just that reason; plus, of course, the satisfaction that comes from beating the North American sailing champion. This week, Corny celebrated the second day of Larchmont Race Week by leading 19 other Internationals home in a brisk, 18-knot northeasterly. Said Corny happily: "The harder it blows, the better I like...
...bulletin pinned to the gate of Marlborough House late at night, to be read by a little knot of silent Britons, was but twelve words long: "While sleeping peacefully, Queen Mary died at 20 minutes past 10 o'clock." Next day Winston Churchill's voice was husky as he moved a "humble Address" from the House of Commons: "She looked like a Queen; she acted like a Queen . . ." On the Labor benches opposite, Clement Attlee was as visibly moved. "There has never been a Queen," he said, "who was so beloved by everybody, and I think this...
...scribbled an incoherent note telling of his anguish at losing the woman he could not live without, then tied one end of a 9-ft. rope around his neck. With the other end secured to the end of the bed, he had evidently walked backwards until the knot tightened and ended...