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...price of a meal." That particular letter brought the price of a pretty good meal-$250-at an auction of G.B.S. letters and memorabilia at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. A total of $41,900 was paid for the 165 lots-including $4,250 for a packet of 19 love letters from young Shaw to his "undeservedly beloved," a nurse named Alice Lockett. "I am," he wrote, "opinionated, vain, weak, ignorant, lazy and so forth." He gave her a sample in his final letter: "Lovemaking grows tedious to me-the emotion has evaporated from it. This is your fault...
...very end, when JJ walks off carrying a little packet of white powder, he wonders--and we wonder--is it rat poison again? You hope so--there's no other way out of JJ's desperate situation, caught between crooks and cops, developed so convincingly in the second half of the film. If he doesn't get it this time he will the next...
Brinnin sets it all down, from the packet Savannah, which reached England under sail in 1819 using its steam engine mostly for public relations puffery, to (and down with) the Titanic and the Lusitania, and finally down to (but not with) the excellent but irrelevant Q.E. 2. The author proves again that the sea, at least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full...
...final document in the packet is a form given to subjects of FBI interrogation, outlining their rights to remain silent and to legal counsel. The final paragraph of the form, however, contains a waiver releasing the Bureau from honoring any of the rights listed...
...addition to the FBI documents, the latest packet contains a mimeographed plea for funds from RESIST, stating that the cost of xeroxing and distributing the stolen FBI material is becoming prohibitive. The message asks newspapers to help defray the cost...