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...invasion and the Greek civil war. While touring Germany in 1950, he learned that he had Hodgkin's disease (cancer of the lymph nodes), never discussed it with anyone but his wife (daughter of Author Robert Graves) and a few intimates. Without slackening his work, he continued to rove European capitals for news, visited the U.S., wrote a book on Soviet-Western relations. Last week, minutes before he died in a London hospital, he whispered to his wife: "Somehow I feel as though I'm going on another big military operation...
Among the swank set at Deauville, France there were two versions as to how Aly Khan picked up the massive shiner on his right eye. Popular version: dining at a restaurant without his usual companion of late, Cinemactress Joan Fontaine, he let his eye rove too obviously toward a nearby beauty whose husband's aim was right on target. Aly's story: "My physical instructor hit me accidentally with his head...
...good many years, Poet Williams has also been working on something more ambitious: a long four-part poem about nearby Paterson (pop. 150,000), of which the first three parts are finished. The Williams scheme in Paterson seems simple enough: let the eye rove and write down what it sees. Since the Williams eye is as unpredictable as any man's, the resulting images may be strung together like freight cars in the Erie R.R. yards at Paterson, but all in all they are pretty sharp images. On a Sunday in Paterson's park an old woman -lifts...
...watching the screen," complained one bartender, "people forget what is the prime purpose of a bar, which is to drink." He had three solutions for that: 1) "An extra employee to rove through the crowd and remind people that their drink is getting low"; 2) "Fill the first row with fast Scotch drinkers, and push them slow beers to the back. However, that is too ideal to be practical, because you would be offending a beer drinker who could easily develop into something better"; 3) "Raise prices during television hours; most places...
When he got a job at Manning, Maxwell & Moore, which operates plants in Bridgeport, Boston. Muskegon and Tulsa, he decided he would rove no more. The company was long on engineering skill, short on merchandising. Wason supplied the merchandising so effectively that sales increased 17-fold in the next ten years...