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...young waiter was lying on the ground, stabbed to death. Abbott was gone. He fled south to New Orleans, then on to the oilfields along the Gulf of Mexico. Abbott led an aimless life of twelve-hour shifts at $4 an hour and spent hot nights on tired, sheetless mattresses in lonely bunkhouses a hundred miles from nowhere. Last week he was finally run to ground outside Morgan City, La. Abbott offered no resistance and said little until told that Belly had become a literary hit. Said Morgan City Detective Bob Bazet: "When he heard that, he really picked...
Chief and most unbelievable charac ter in this self-proclaimed "novel of the new American revolution" is Arkansas Representative Timotheus Denney, who is cast as the legislative wizard and bourbon-breathing Grand Dragon of all the sheetless Klansmen on Capitol Hill. This Ozark Ozymandias wants the Government to build him a $2 billion Denney Dam back in Yell County, Ark. But he faces an ironic choice: the dam will be voted out of committee only if Denney pledges support for a civil rights bill. Never, he yells, and threatens to touch off race war if the dam doesn...
...sheetless bed," Koestler writes The Invisible Writing--"enveloped by gloom and stench, counting the familiar stains on the wall which crushed bed-bugs leave behind, I heard the sound of a gramophone in the next room." It was Hughes, playing Sophie Tucker on his phonograph, not bothering to notice the dirt. While Koestler was disgusted by the filth and unsanitary living habits, and only briefly amused by a local purge trial, Hughes was enjoying lavish Turk hospitality and occasionally reading the voluminous notes Koestler took each day. What Koestler found most everywhere failed to meet his expectations, and Hughes, having...
...Princetonians of the Class of 1921 wistfully toasted the memory of the finest escapist of them all, Classmate Richard Halliburton, lost at sea seven years ago as he followed his Royal Road to Romance. Old grads glowing too gloriously were put to bed by 500 helpful undergrads-some in sheetless cots lent by Red Cross Disaster Relief...
...work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll." Case 2,490: "Upon being ushered into this man's apartment, a sight greeted me that was not only repulsive but nauseating. Worker himself was in a semi-drunken stupor. His wife was lying on a dirty, sheetless bed. so drunk she could hardly raise her head. A mother cat with young kittens was in a box near...
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