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Later in the week Paw struggled through a maze of financial paper work. Oil company agents had persuaded him to engage a trust company to handle his royalties, which might reach $800 a week. "The wife and the boys," said Paw, "can do what they want with the money. They stuck with me when we had nothing to keep us alive but the milk from our five cows. I'm 62 now so I don't need it. They can buy anything they want...
...skillfully drove through downtown Milan's maze of narrow streets, he explained: "I have a position of responsibility. Now you will see, everywhere we go today the people will not call me just 'Pretti' or 'Come here, Pretti.' Instead, they will say 'Signor Pretti,' for I am the representative of Coca-Cola." At his first stop, on the Via Santa Marta, Signor Pretti made a few cheerful remarks, straightened a Coke sign on the wall and departed. At the Zi' Cori, a tiny refreshment room, Pretti wiped the dust from...
...able, dogged Major General Lyman Lemnitzer had prodded and pushed MAP through Congress and the chancelleries of Europe. He had maneuvered it past an international minefield of patents (each country is now responsible to its citizens for payment of royalties) and a maze of different currencies (the Europeans have agreed to pay the expenses of American missions in local money...
...scorn for humanity. Despite numerous old Hollywood traditions, Radek does not jump, thereby supplying one of the film's pleasantest surprises. He comes breathlessly close, however, in a series of amazing shots that will make you wonder whether or not Tone and Meredith actually did clamber all over this maze of girders. How Maigret bloodlessly outwits Radek proves a vastly satisfying way of rounding out these two-hours of tense action...
Wild life and religion stand out as about the only two comprehensible characteristics of Charles Waterton. Investigating the rest of him is like entering a maze that turns out to have been planned as a staggering hoax. Many (including Novelist Norman Douglas and Poet Edith Sitwell) have been lured down the winding trails that appear to lead to the Watertonian heart of the matter-only to find that a conglomeration of blind alleys is, itself, the mysterious center of the weird and wonderful meanderer. Biographer Richard (The Duke) Aldington, in the most complete work on Waterton to date, explores...