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Nonetheless, the youth who later adopted the pen name Stendhal and became one of the world's great novelists once deigned to write something not for the ages, but for himself. The result is something for the ages. It is the famous Journal, finally translated into English a century and a half after it was written...
...hold her silver fox wrap, and a lady from Universal-International, sensing my importance, sidled over and told me Debbie had just flown East for a few days to see Eddie Fisher. She winked and a slab of pancake makeup crashed to the floor. Waiting until my ball pen was working, she told me about Debbie's next picture for Paramount Studios, which is a thriller-diller, but I've lost my notes and I can't remember much else about it. Then Debbie walked over near us with a bunch of Puddies in tow, and I noticed her nicely...
...national Catholic weekly, America, the shop's manager, who uses the pen name .Margaret Montgomery, tells of this and scores of similar incidents she experienced in a "profession . . . where the sublime and the ridiculous dwell together in an absurd, often unholy . . . union." Among her examples...
...Manhattan, Yankee Yogi Berra broke a long-standing habit of holding out until late spring before accepting his season's contract. Offered an estimated $45,000, Yogi grabbed for a pen like a catcher going for a squeeze bunt, signed and became the best-paid backstop in baseball...
...Manhattan last week, the New York Transit Authority put its pen to a $3,881,000 contract to build an entirely new system of transportation. The jammed, jolting old subway shuttle train between Grand Central Station and Times Square, half a mile crosstown, will be replaced by a gigantic conveyor belt carrying an endless chain of lightweight passenger cars. Riders will step onto a belt moving at 1½ m.p.h., and from there into cars which will then speed up to 15 m.p.h. for the two-minute trip to Times Square and slow down again to let them off. Builder...