Word: lintels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memory for detail is photographic. After half an hour in one Swiss village, he reproduced it in a set down to the last lintel and Lederhosen. When he came to the U.S., he flabbergasted David 0. Selznick's representatives by telling them precisely where everything in Manhattan was and how best to get there. And he could scarcely wait to see the police lineup, a treat to which he had been looking forward for years...
Back home after five years, Haile Selassie found the interim occupants of the palace had left a stone Roman eagle on the lintel over the front door. He had it beheaded...