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Cadillacs & Chris-Crafts. All these interests keep Abboud busy from 7 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. (with two hours out for a midday nap). Nevertheless, he still finds time to enjoy such playthings as a stable of six Cadillacs, a string of Arab stallions, three houses (but only one swimming pool), a private plane and three Chris-Craft speedboats...
...self-imposed ordeal was over, the pink rose in the lapel of Morse's dark blue suit was withered, but 52-year-old Maverick Morse himself was still sprightly enough to chat with reporters and pose smilingly for photographers before going to his office for a three-hour nap...
...Tyrone Power and Raymond Massey, had already covered 14,000 miles, given 80 performances m 60 cities. Most of Manhattan's critics gave John Brown & Co. columns of raves. The dissenter: John Chapman, of the tabloid Daily News, recommended the show to those who "are looking for a nap. . . It was only duty which kept me from dozing through a large part of the artistically elaborate and physically unintersting proceedings...
...excavation in Herculaneum. I even read medical journals"). He "does" Finnegan's Wake, pores over Kierkegaard, works at his hobby of dating the plays of Lope de Vega, strums on the piano, or reads a score of a Palestrina Mass. After lunch he usually takes a long nap. After 5, visitors come ("I like bustle after 5"). Then, pacing about his living room, consumed with his latest enthusiasm, Wilder will talk on & on into the night. Sometimes he goes "roaming"-long solitary rambles...
...Franklin, arriving at home of 'Aunt Minnie and Uncle John' Hardison for dinner at 12:35; leave at 12:55 for 1 p.m. service at Franklin church; 2:30 p.m., Gouldsboro; leave for home at 3 :30 p.m., put wood on fire, play with pup, have nap, supper, make North Sullivan service at 5:45 p.m.; finish up with Prospect Harbor service, 7:15 p.m." At each church, she preaches the same sermon "but with variations...