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Caroline Chérie, as she is known to countless thousands of Frenchmen, always wins-not least when she chooses to surrender. She is like the heroine of an old movie serial, with the important difference that where the movie heroine was chained fully clothed to the tracks to be torn asunder by the Santa Fe express, Caroline is generally denuded by pursuers intent on joining her in union specific. As she herself sportingly admits at a critical moment (she is hanging almost naked from a rafter in a subzero temperature): "There is something better to do with . . . women than...
...despite political differences, they had always hit it off. The Beaver gave him material and interviews, put him in touch with friends, introduced him frequently at luncheons and dinners as "my biographer." After Driberg had completed three chapters, Beaverbrook liked them so well that he bought the British serial rights for ?5,000 ($14,000)-a whopping purchase by London standards...
...when distinguished guests arrived, and roses stood in silver bowls. It was also a high-minded, rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened to his father's serial stories about two characters called Whangdoodle and Whiffenpoof. The saddest moment of Stevenson's childhood-the tragic death of a young girl when a gun Adlai was carrying went off accidentally-is told by Author Ives with great kindness and candor. For the rest, tragedy is absent...
Bowl Is Pot. More than 125 newspapers across the nation ran the book as a serial. When the Detroit Free Press published its series, one distraught father wrote in to describe the plight of his son in high school. "They are trying to expel him," he said, "or in some manner rid themselves of him. You know why? Because he cannot read. How in the hell he got as far as loB ... is beyond my means of comprehension." In Louisville, a mother reported on her third-grader's typewriting: "He typed the letters very easily . . . But after typing...
Lovshin: "I've instructed my wife, if she ever goes to a doctor, to give nothing but my name, rank and serial number...