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...gives another glimpse of this side of Grant's nature by comparing the way he and Sherman smoked cigars: "Grant liked to lean back, taking his ease, smoking meditatively, enjoying it; Sherman got at it with energy, `as if it were a duty to be finished in the shortest imaginable time,' destroying his cigar as rapidly as possible...
...loser from childhood. "I always used to wish there was another Dustin in class," he recalls. "When you're poked fun at?they used to call me 'Dustbin'?you either go inside yourself or become a clown. In seventh grade, I played Tiny Tim because I was the shortest kid in the class. Because a ninth-grader dared me, in front of all the parents at the Christmas show, I said: 'God bless us every one, Goddammit.' I got suspended for that. In high school, the other guys had hair on their chests and played football. I played tennis...
...Henry V included only half the original; Franco Zeffirelli's recent Romeo and Juliet cut more than half. To Director Hall, 38; the best solution was to leave Shakespeare's words alone. Since A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the bard's shortest plays, he cut only ten lines...
...Inauguration Day itself, in happy contrast to the eight inches of snow that buried Washington just before the Kennedy Inauguration eight years ago. After Nixon takes the oath from Chief Justice Earl Warren at noon on the Capitol steps and delivers his inaugural address, the two-hour parade-shortest in memory, timed to end while there is still enough light for color-television cameras-will get under way up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Nixon, Vice President Agnew and their families will watch from a heated presidential box enclosed in bulletproof glass; lesser spectators will look on from bleachers...
...SOME PEOPLE have taken to maligning Christmas. They grumble from behind the turned-up collars of their wide-welt cord jackets that "there's too much tinsel in the air." But just when it's getting the coldest, the days growing shortest, and the future looking most barren who can deny that we all like to return to the warm womb of familiar old Christmas? Who can say it isn't great to see that fecund, fetid growth of oozing summer at last driven from the earth as the land is purified by the cold...