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...hotel room to wring a finished script out of him. People loved him as a sort of raffish reproach to the world of respectability, a reprobate innocent. He got away with almost anything. The story goes that as an honored guest for an Oxford poetry society which served only select wines, Thomas asked for a jug of beer at the outset, cheerfully poured each successive vintage wine into the same jug and mixed it up with his teaspoon...
Cheesecake. In Detroit, meeting to select the Posture Queen of 1955. Michigan chiropractors dutifully pored over dozens of candidates' X rays to find the girl with the best intervertebral fibro-cartilages...
...treasures; it would also have a $4,500,000 Pope Pius XII Memorial Library to house them. Treasure Hunt. When Daly and Donnelly first settled down to work in 1951, they faced a staggering task. Since they could not film all the volumes in the Vatican, they had to select the books and manuscripts most valuable to scholars. The Vatican's indexes, however, often gave only sketchy descriptions of the various books, and it was necessary to consult scores of experts in all sorts of fields from medicine to mathematics, astrology to astronomy, Roman civil to medieval canon...
...honor Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp (TIME. Jan. 10), the flight-surgeon rider on Holloman's terrifying rocket sled, who has probably taken more jolts than any other man. Now a new name for the new unit-the "stapp"-is well established. Colonel Stapp has joined the select company of men, e.g., Watt, Volta, Ampere,* whose names have been given to a physical unit of measurement...
...content with attacks upon the spirit of the day, Gundelfinger also assaulted the spirits in a section entitled "The 18th Amendment and Football," "Surely form the Elevens of our several hundred colleges we could select at least one Eleven whose each and every member would be a teetotaler, and one whose each and every member uses booze and lots...