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...Graves, she fell in love with an Irish journalist named Phibbs. The "strange Trinity" (Nancy, Laura and Robert) became a stranger quartet. Even the gallant and scrupulous biographer cannot prevent the arrangement from sounding like a send-up of The Edge of Night. When Phibbs rejected Riding, she swallowed Lysol and jumped from a fourth-story window. A horrified Robert leaped after her, but not before running down to the third floor. Laura sustained fractures of the spine and pelvis. Robert, with the luck of those pure souls who chase White Goddesses, was unharmed. Riding left Graves...
...just so scared about my baby." A healthy girl was born, and for six months Susan was "hysterical" about protecting the youngster, now 3½. "She is probably the most paranoid kid on the block," says Susan, because of elaborate warnings and precautions. Susan douses the house with quarts of Lysol when friends come over, and admits to "enormous" sexual problems with her husband, who caught herpes from...
Crouter, in turn, was irritated by the Japanese attitude toward women. "Feudal," she wrote, after a guard said that American women opened and shut doors too aggressively, instead of gently like Japanese women. In 1943 the Japanese placed Lysol-soaked cloths in boxes outside the huts and announced that any prisoners who failed to wipe their feet on the cloth would be beaten. Wrote Crouter: "I am rather confused over Japanese politeness and tea ceremony in comparison with the Sergeant offering to slap any woman who wouldn't dip her feet into the door box. Like us, their nature...
...clerks loaded up ten carts and off they went, Douglas leading the procession in wheelchair, his secretary pushing and spraying Lysol on the wheels to mask the odor from the bag for his incontinence...The unpleasant odor filled the room...
...smooth. In one grotesque juxtaposition, the audience saw Dorf sitting with Eichmann and a couple of other SS officers in their dining room at Auschwitz. Eichmann sniffs the air and disgustedly remarks that the stench of the chimneys keeps him from enjoying his meal. We cut then to a Lysol commercial, in which a woman character named "Snoopy Sniffer" arrives at a housewife's kitchen and informs her that she has house odors. From her ovens? Can the mind swivel so wildly? Some of those watching gave up and turned off their sets...