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...Banes. Quitting Banes' Quaker School at twelve, he worked as a tailor's apprentice, bartender, barber, banana picker, cane cutter and railroad hand. At 20 he joined the Army. To other soldiers, he was virtually a literary type: there was always a book or magazine under the pillow of his bunk. When he got the chance, he studied shorthand and became a sergeant-stenographer, handling secret papers, working with high officers, traveling around...
...Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote recalled a touching secondhand memory of Greta Garbo: "I stopped by the apartment of a friend who previously that afternoon had entertained Garbo at tea. As I entered the room and started to sit down in an especially comfortable-looking chair piled with pillows, my friend, a very sane fellow, suddenly asked would I mind not using that particular chair. 'You see,' he said solemnly, 'she sat there: the dent in the little red pillow, that's where her hand rested-I should like to keep it a while longer...
...shaft of sunlight caught Vag full on the face as he spun to avoid the last tackler, and there he was, flat on his back in bed clutching the tight-packed pillow...
...great to be alive, thought Vag, reluctantly loosening his grip on the pillow. Especially, he thought as he sprung out of bed, especially on Saturday morning. What ho for football, he thought. What ho for the American Way of Life. What ho. Some day he would take his firstborn, Young Vag, to the Stadium and show him the great beating heart of America...
...Office of Price Stabilization in which we could use your services." ¶ Saks Fifth Avenue offered the chic Manhattanite a black tiara hat and choker trimmed with rhinestones and a matched leash and collar for her dog-$55 the set. I. Mangin suggested an electric-driven "magic pillow," to support the back of the "tired-busy woman," the head of the "tired businessman." "Its pulsating motion reduces nervous tension," explained Magnin, and asked $89.50 for it. ¶ Ann Payson, toy manufacturer of Hackensack, N.J., announced that her firm would stop making penny banks, concentrate on toy banks that took coins...