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...taking off (they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult, a brand new inoculation for plague had been ordered. That meant a seven-day wait. Meanwhile, the ATCman in New Delhi had found the original passage money he claimed Sherrod had not given him . . . etc. Eventually, Sherrod got to China...
...Day after day the average Briton wakes up to a breakfast of tea and toast with butter or margarine from a seven-day allowance of some six ounces. Once a week he may have an egg. Twice a week, a 1½-oz. piece of bacon. Twice a week, porridge...
Silk-hatted Jiggs had made McManus a well-dressed millionaire-and had chained him to a seven-day week. In Manhattan last week to attend the lunch and to sign a contract for a series of Maggie & Jiggs movies, McManus borrowed an office. There he and assistant "Zeke" Zekley scratched away to keep up to date on the daily and Sunday strips for which more than 400 newspapers in 32 countries pay him more than $100,000 a year...
...Lillyman, thrice wounded and eight times decorated, heaven was worth a try. When he learned two months ago that he would soon be going home, he wrote to Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania his order for a seven-day dream: "A suite that will face east ... a cup of English-made tea served to me in bed ... no military title -'Mister' will be music to my ears. . . ." A phonograph "with any & all Strauss selections," a "large, grey-haired, motherly" maid to look after his three-year-old daughter Susie, a new toy for Susie every day, flowers every...
Early in the week, Baltimore began to sweat and shake with its annual seven-day fever over a horse race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...