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Unfortunately, it does not take much of this to turn the hotel clerk into a genuine Hollywood cowboy, and as soon as he gets back to that Chicago hotel, he proceeds to demonstrate his he-manity. Superb in a steaming tub he sits, swigging his quart and sucking his Havana and languidly, when the spirit moves him, blasting away at the roaches on the walls with his trusty...
...deliveryman handed over a package, he said knowingly, "Here's another one for the doc." Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein took the package out to the garage, set it on his workbench and stripped the wrappings. With a screwdriver, the doctor pried the top off a shiny new quart can. In it, well preserved by wrappings of formaldehyde-soaked gauze, was a human brain...
...that the world has brightened for her, Harlem's harsh outlines occasionally soften for the reminiscent tournament traveler. "I remember you could get fish and chips for 15? and soda at 5? a quart. And there were sweet potatoes-we called 'em 'mickeys'-that we cooked at a fire over milk crates. We'd climb over the fence to a playground and we'd swing way up, two on a swing. And we'd sneak in the movies. If there was any poverty, I wasn't aware of it. How could...
...driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward by those who have known him longest, Beck never suffered so much as a hangnail. But such was the shadow he cast through his goon squad, that the rank-and-file Teamster still thinks...
...descended from a plane at Orly Field last week were about his U.S. visit. Then French newsmen got down to what they regarded as more important: What would the Premier do about the bill in the National Assembly to raise the price of milk half a cent a quart? To an aide Mollet testily commented: "How can I return from high policy talks with Eisenhower and ask for a vote of confidence on milk...