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Nobody doubted it: Harvard needed a new bridge. The Boston Post suggested in 1911 that "somebody with a good, plump bank account might well devote some of its surplus age to the building of a safe and artistic Harvard bridge. That ramshackle old contraption is a peril and disgrace to the two cities that appear to be waiting for it to fall into the Charles, which it will probably do some fine day. Where is the millionaire who will immortalize himself and serve posterity by building a new bridge...
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov seemed rather elderly (about 45) to be only a third secretary, which was the post he filled for the past three years in the Soviet embassy at Canberra. But Petrov appeared to wield more authority than his rank called for. Plump and spectacled, he paid little attention to the rules of purdah for Russians abroad-he was affable, a good mixer, spoke fair English, frequented hotel bars, went on fishing trips with Westerners. With his pretty blonde wife, an embassy stenographer, he lived in a comfortable brick house less than a quarter of a mile from...
With Jameson's scholarly research and Shapiro's managerial finesse, the the group has gotten off to a strong start and Adams House is again winning further acclaim its plump connoisseurs of good food...
Counting U.S. Senate seats that they expected to win this fall, Democrats underestimated the power of plump, matronly Fern Armitage Johnson, wife (for 47 years) of Colorado's Democratic Senator Edwin Johnson. Big Ed has never lost an election and seemed sure to win again in November. But after 18 years in Washington, Mrs. Johnson felt homesick for Colorado. Last week Big Ed announced: "Mrs. Johnson has developed a complex about living longer in Washington, so retirement is a must...
...page stretch. Peter meets and rebuffs his first American prostitute, goes inside his first American church (a Roman Catholic cathedral), sees his first prizefight and enters his first speakeasy. Seething with ambition, he decides that love is off-limits and only strays once, into a brief affair with his plump landlady...