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...suggest to all those kiddies out there that they get ahold of Daddy's wallet and remove "those little green pieces of paper with pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln and Jefferson and send them to me, and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico." Four $1 bills came in, and so did a stiff complaint. Soup was canned, but only temporarily. His suspension became an instant cause. The phone calls never quit, petitions piled up, the station was picketed, and five days later his hourlong, six-times-a-week show roared back...
...about his four-room furnished flat in London, playing records, sipping Scotch, chattering on the telephone, often with his good friend Erik Bruhn, who, he says, is "the only dancer who has anything to show me that I don't already know." He uses the phone like a postcard, calling dancer friends around the world, chitchatting in fluent, slightly accented English. When visitors arrive, he will emerge wearing high, tan moccasins, skintight, sky-blue pants and flowing fuchsia shirt. Scattered about the living room are effects that mark the mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac...
...despite Washington's silence on the initial $60,000 request ("we haven't even received a postcard," Moot says), the committee will dispatch two more applications to the capital this week. If approval comes back before mid-June--and the very tardiness of the requests and the slowness in Washington make this an imponderable--the committee hopes to have three pilot projects underway this summer...
...closer 3 mint condition than the originals in Florence. After centuries, much of Ghiberti's detail was too weathered and worn to emerge clearly. So, after gilding the bronze, Bearzi's foundry chased the Renaissance precision touch back on. One craftsman spent six weeks detailing a postcard-size section, bringing out each and every feather on a bird no bigger than one-sixth of a postage stamp. What took Ghiberti 27 years to conceive and execute took eight man-years of labor just to imitate...
...postcard that says you owe Lamont a reserve book is usually the result of a clerical error...