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...world like a Red Cross Evacuation Center," sneered one of the leaflets. "The whole idea of 'decorating' the dance with 'relaxing' mattresses and bedding is so ludicrous that we have to laugh...As a matter of fact, I can't think of anything more 'decorative' than a pile of grubby, Harvard-issue mattresses...
...thing I knew, he was picking me up." The New York Giants' Sam Huff says that stopping Taylor is so difficult that no amount of mayhem is unjustified. "They ought to relax the rules," complains Huff. "It's not right that you should get a penalty for piling on Taylor. You gotta pile on to keep him down...
...Fair Exchange, The Untouchables). Ex-President Desi wants to get out of show business and dive more deeply into his horse breeding, country club and real estate interests. He is leaving Lucy with 52% of a company now valued at $20 million, a figure that almost exactly equals the pile that Desi and Lucy accumulated on I Love Lucy...
...nearly 70 now-a dark, brooding, badger-faced man living in near-total oblivion in the enormous stone pile that is Spandau prison. But in May 1941, when Rudolf Hess suddenly landed in a cow pasture in Scotland and asked to see the Duke of Hamilton, the Deputy Führer of the Third Reich was full of high hope...
...wore a hat because he was convinced that the sun's ultraviolet light beating into the skull would destroy the ability to distinguish between nuances of grey; he ordered that the friendly spiders which abounded in his studio should not be disturbed (the maids hid behind the coal pile the mop used for brushing down spiderwebs). He was a patient and humorous father; explaining the meaning of duty to his son, he would recall his own boyhood as a tailor's son. "I had to shell green peas and I loathed it. But I knew that...