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...Last week the company announced that 21 ex-prisoners have already done so (one former colonel came all the way from Georgia), and 500 in all have written to say they are interested. Salesman Wilkins, who is on a 60-day leave until his discharge in December (he was pheasant hunting last week), did not have to worry about getting his old job back...
...police beat is in a white section, and when some white people objected, his superior suggested that he ask for a transfer, but he quietly replied that he would rather resign from the force. After he goes off duty each evening, he reports for work at the China Pheasant. By closing time (5 a.m.), Humes has usually lifted at least one drunk (white or colored) well above the floor and carried him into the street. Humes says he does not often wonder whether it's all worth it. But when he does, he thinks of his wife...
...Munsan, the U.N. truce base where old notices now curl and yellow on the bulletin boards, some 200 marooned U.S. officers and men have found various ways to alleviate boredom since the Panmunjom talks were broken off last October. The latest (in addition to cards, pingpong, movies, basketball, pheasant hunting in the nearby hills and sleeping): assembling toy trains from kits sent from Japan...
Even so, a few snippets of gossip got out. The court heard that Louis sometimes fainted at dinner, after stuffing himself to the gills. Sample menu: four soups, three terrines of foie gras, countless hors d'oeuvres, 16 meat courses, partridge, chicken, song birds, pheasant, turkey, squab, 14 desserts, creams and cakes. And Paris had ample evidence that, in her later years, Pompadour turned from mistress to madam, filled the château with a succession of pretty girls to drive away His Majesty's boredom...
...sistance. In Milbank, S. Dak., just as Mrs. Albert Lindell was preparing to pluck the pheasant which her husband had shot, the bird took wing, flew out of the kitchen...