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...That was installed by an old eccentric who used to own this place," Ward said. "I'm going to have it filled in." An elaborate practical joker, Ward often put a dog collar around Christine's neck and led her around London on a leash. Some times Christine received guests wearing nothing but skintight blue jeans, once gave a party at which all the guests sat drinking champagne in her bathroom...
...happily dropped the burdens of authorship in favor of marriage to a sprightly American divorcee with silver hair and a white and gold yacht. Powell has a truly English wariness toward women, whom he seems to regard, at best, as dangerous domestic pets always ready to slip their leash...
...done the dishes had there been no TV reporters to assure them of nationwide exposure, hair curlers and all-but then again, they might not. Men have wrought considerable mayhem without a single reporter in sight, and there have been cases where reporters have even served as a restraining leash. "To be sure," Friendly admitted, "the presence of the press at Clemson caused no trouble and did not create a bad story out of a good...
...girl make woman's best friend out of the curly haired wolf (Bobby Darin) she is wed to? Easy. She scratches him behind his ears, lets him run on a nice long leash, dresses to bring out the Pinscher in him, feeds him plenty of pink meat and hot mush, gives him a good warm place to sleep. Pretty soon she has trained the poor yap to fetch, carry, make spaniel eyes, sit up and beg for his supper and think all the while what a lucky dog he is. But one day somebody tells him how his wife...
...salesman for a London scale manufacturer, founded his own engineering company in 1935. In 1946 his fast-growing firm was bought up by Elliott Brothers, an old-line instrument maker with dwindling sales. Bagrit took command of the merged company. Impressed by the control systems developed to leash atomic energy during World War II, he decided that such automatic methods would also work in industry, and would be of vital importance to Britain. Lacking most raw materials, Britain must depend on the competitive price of its manufactured goods to maintain a place in world trade. "In this country," Bagrit likes...