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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that for a start, most bestselling historicals would be off on a snappy story of boudoir doings in the First Empire, with a lusty cannon counterpoint to the mattress melody. In Desiree, however, Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation to historical fact. The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his Corsican name) as a very young man was actually engaged to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, that he broke the engagement to marry Josephine, and that Desiree later married...
Last week, after weeks of fruitless argument during which the Vienna police remained adamant, Rudolph moved on to Linz and climbed into his bottle. It was a huge, steel-framed affair, seven feet tall. Taking with him an air mattress, a camp stool and two Syrian snakes "for company," Rudolph entered one side of the bottle. Then arc welders sealed him in, leaving only an 8-in. bottleneck open at the top. For the next year, Rudolph plans to live in bottled luxury on vitamin pills and write his memoirs. And if no one comes to see him? Well...
...wandered upstairs-recently wrote health officials in nearby Bad Segeberg, urging them in horror to hurry out and take a look in a room in Steenbock's attic. What the health officers found there was enough to make their flesh crawl: half-dead on a filthy mattress huddled a tiny, emaciated creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak to stand or even crawl. The sight...
Bert Parks, professional smarty-pants, not only survives, he flourishes. This week, he adds a third quiz show, Balance Your Budget, to his string. His sponsors-Bristol-Myers, Campbell Soup, Sealy Mattress -will pay him more than $100,000 this year. Parks thinks the reason for his continuing success lies in his approach: "Mine is to be nice to people. Fun in the living room is the type of thing I do best-that way, you can bring out so many humorous angles." As an example, Parks cites a married couple on one of his shows who had a chance...
...with me in my schooldays," he replied, "when I took my horse, Pilot, in from the field where he had been cropping chlorophyll-laden grass and drove him on a hot day until he reeked with sweat. He stank." To a reader who asked whether she should buy a mattress board to make her bed harder, Dr. Chase wrote: "Personally, I have always liked a sloppy, soft...