Word: mislaid
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...Says Ronald Shelp, a Hart supporter who runs a New York consulting firm: "Three months ago, I invited 500 people to a fund raiser and 40 showed up. In the past two weeks I've heard from the other 460. It's amazing how many incompetent secretaries mislaid my original invitation...
Each of them was the Marilyn Monroe of her day, so Photographer Richard Avedon was assigned to shoot the real Marilyn posing as Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Lillian Russell for a 1958 spread in LIFE. Later, Avedon mislaid the negatives. Then, last December, as he was unpacking books in the library of his new home at Montauk, N.Y., out plopped the photos. He was not so fond of the Dietrich on second viewing, but the four others still charmed him, and he is issuing them as posters at $100 a set ($200 signed). The pictures...
...recover some stolen treasure, a feat that lands one in paradise and the other on the Iberian version of Easy Street. Dirk Zimmer's illustrations have the amiable quality of cartoons; the only people likely to be disturbed by this refreshing tale are those who wonder where they mislaid their sense of humor...
...floor and leave them there for days." Read and other former employees further charge that bins full of excess ashes were sometimes wheeled out to the cemetery grounds and dumped into still open graves. Cooper sued and eventually settled out of court, but her account of switched urns and mislaid remains led to lawsuits by other families...
...called in to scour Lorton. Meanwhile the State Department launched an urgent "damage assessment" to figure out if any U.S. secrets had been compromised. The problem is, because no microfilm records had been made, authorities could not be sure exactly what top-secret information the mislaid safe originally contained. In fact, the only certainty last week was that, in the words of one State Department official, "there sure as hell were lapses all over the place...