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...maharajas became known derisively as the "blackest hole of Calcutta," Oberoi saw an opportunity. He talked the hotel's liquidators into a low-cost five-year lease, although his total resources were $67 in the bank and his mortgaged Simla hotel. He tore out the Grand's rat-infested plumbing, offered typhoid-worried guests unlimited soda water even for washing, installed well-built White Russian chorus girls in the hotel's three nightclubs. World War II converted the shaky gamble into a roaring business: the Grand began bedding down 600 to 900 Allied officers, serving...
Saturation Attack. Near Hailey, Idaho, miffed because a rat was chewing up a saddle he kept in a barn, Arne Friestad let fly with a shotgun, demolished the rat-and also the barn when pellets struck a nearby box of dynamite...
...That is not a friend," a mutual acquaintance consoled Miller. "That is a living corpse." The living corpse ceased living in a charity hospital on Aug. 31, 1954. "He was alone like a rat," reports Miller with relief-but also with a tinge of regret...
...longer an underfed, despairing Rat des Caves, Juliette has been married and divorced, has a two-year-old daughter, and last week was working on her fifth film (L'Homme et L'Enfant, with Eddie Constantine). She was planning a singing tour of South Africa, and had the prospect of a trip to Hollywood next winter to make a film with Danny Kaye. The wartime street days seemed far away. "They molded my life," she said, "but in my case, it's better not to look back...
...state of damnation ... to reveal the truth about this desolate world." Rarer than the power to shock is Author Gascar's power to evoke disgust, which he does by combining familiar objects in unfamiliar ways until they become surreal and emetic. In Gaston he describes a rat: "It looked rather like a great hairy carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift...