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Hopkins sleeps in white silk pajamas, but Tom soon realizes that he is no softie. Behind the manners of a Southern gentleman lurks a mind like a shark's mouth. Hopkins is not only a genius for work but for good works. It is Tom's big chore throughout much of the novel to write a first draft of a Hopkins speech kicking off a national campaign on mental health. Before the speech is finally given, Tom has to take a bumpy ride over his own well-scarred mental highway. It is stalked by the ghosts...
LOCKHEED CONSTELLATION, in production since 1943, through eight versions, has now passed $1 billion in sales, the first transport plane in history to top the mark. So far, about 650 of the shark-bodied, triple-finned planes have been built or ordered by the military services and 26 airlines. Biggest commercial customer: T.W.A., which will have 101 Connies flying when it gets delivery of its latest $46 million order for 20 Super Constellations...
...days, before pool had its name changed and went highbrow, competition in all forms of billiards was keener. And the best shark in the business was not too proud to indulge in a little gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew...
Afterward, Communist Chou tendered a great banquet (on the menu: swallow's-nest soup, kidney, chicken, fish, shark's fins, crab, abalone, mushrooms, Peking duck, broccoli in oyster sauce). Toasts were drunk in Chinese wine. The Chinese showed a movie in color, a harrowing love story. Both sides issued a short statement: "We feel that these talks have been useful." Then Hammarskjold flew back to New York via the Pacific, completing an around-the-world swing. On leaving, he sent Chou his "sincere personal thanks...
Upstaged. In New London, Conn., Walter Mamonis explained to doctors that after he had caught a shark in Long Island Sound, beached it, hung it on a hoist and struck a traditional fisherman's pose beside it, the shark bit his hand...