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...point. Chambers' father deserted his wife and two sons and sent them an allowance of only $8 a week. Chambers' mother developed a fear of prowlers, and took to sleeping with an ax under her bed. Chambers himself was soon tucking a knife under his pillow. Chambers' brother became an alcoholic, and killed himself by drinking a quart of whisky and cushioning his head on a pillow inside an oven...
...learned to trot around London on a leash, sniff at fireplugs, untie the tightest knot with his teeth, and sleep on his back with his arms outside the covers just as his master did. And whenever Maxwell overslept, Mij darted beneath the covers, ripped them loose and stole the pillow...
...ceremony more feather-filled than a pillow fight, Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, became an honorary Indian six times over in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presented with the traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of the Crow, Seminole, Navaho, Apache and Mohawk tribes. The occasion, according to the Indians, was originally inspired by their gratitude to F.D.R., who during a 1938 drought helped them retrieve a sacred beaded thunderbird from the Smithsonian Institution, where it had been gathering dust and making no rain...
...Ernst, a geometric Anthony and Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
...Brookline's Brooks Hospital, Dr. Lind examined feathers in pillow stuffings that had been "sanitized" (washed, heat-treated and chemically disinfected) to Government standards. He found huge amounts of residual bacteria: up to 13 million organisms per gram. Most are probably harmless to humans, but at least three diseases-including psittacosis, or "parrot fever"-can be transmitted to humans from fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth...