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...caller wasn't exactly a college kid reading a script; he was a former curator of the Smithsonian. Still, I was getting all set to find some delicate way off the phone ("Oh, gosh, the ambulance is here") when I remembered the Marilyn letter. Forget Abe Lincoln ("Dear Sir: Herewith I send you my autograph, which you request. Yours Truly, A. Lincoln": $5,000). What about Marilyn...
...live for the rest of my life in fear of that man. I don't want to be responsible for him doing it to someone else." Presiding judge Mary Lupo ordered jurors to disregard the statement. When attorney Black offered one last objection, the witness still did not buckle. "Sir," she said flatly, "your client raped me." Afterward, she left without saying a word...
...manager. Two decades ago, British regulators investigating his 1969 attempt to sell Pergamon Press concluded in a report that the murky relationships among Maxwell's privately held businesses made him specifically unfit "to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company." A principal author of that report, Sir Ronald Leach, now 84, said last week, "If anybody had taken the time and trouble to read and take notice of our report, they would have seen that what has been happening recently was happening 20 years ago." The final collapse of his empire suggests that Maxwell was less a media mogul...
There may be nothing Sam Skinner won't do for Bush. During a 1989 G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, a Secret Service agent, careful not to alarm the crowd, inched toward the head table on all fours. He tapped Skinner on the foot and said, "Follow me, sir." Without ado, the Secretary of Transportation got down on his hands and knees and crawled between tables, chairs and legs to the rear of the ballroom, then stepped into a waiting limousine and motored to the White House Situation Room, where he planned the California earthquake cleanup...
...hours, MacArthur landed at dawn near a Mindanao pineapple plantation, where a B-17 bomber picked him up and flew him to Australia. On landing, he asked the first American officer he saw about the U.S. reinforcements he thought were awaiting his arrival. "So far as I know, sir," said the officer, "there are very few troops here." Said MacArthur to an aide: "Surely he is wrong...