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Crimson composure on a silken couch...
...Elizabeth is capable of great, violent, tempestuous hates," he observes; but in brighter moods she calls him "Richard Bursnips" and combs his silken hair, saying it is "soft as a baby's bum." Her parents stop in from time to time to sip black velvets with their new fun-in-law. null or without company, Elizabeth tries to stay close by him 25 hours a day, filling poor Richard's almanac with some dull stretches of prose as well as short bursts of poetry. During most of the winter, he would slip out to see his family several times...
...must believe in what you do"-and Lombardi believes in his Packers. In the dressing room he tells his players: "The only thing that can beat you is yourself. Think about this: the Green Bay Packers are you! Remember it! The Green Bay Packers are you!" His voice grows silken, almost hypnotic. "Look, I've said it all before, but I'll say it again. If we are going to win the championship, we are going to win it ourselves. We can't count on anybody falling down for us. We've come a long...
...invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny (4 ft., 11 in.), dark-haired Polly wrote a bestselling memoir (A House Is Not a Home) that helped enrich the idiom ("There's no shaking off the press"), completed two years...
...City convention of the 447,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union unanimously elected diminutive David Dubinsky, 70, to his eleventh three-year term as president. Having brought the union from threadbare poverty (32,000 members, a $1,500,000 debt just before he became president) to silken opulence (assets of $425 million) in 30 years, the pudgy potentate of the cloak-and-suiters saw no reason why he shouldn't keep going. "Some people are old in their young days; some people are young in their old days," said he. "I feel that...