Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head for liquor), neither diets nor exercises regularly to keep in his famed trim, although he concedes that "nothing would destroy the illusion faster than a belly." When he is in Manhattan he rarely misses a dinner at home, and he usually gets eight hours' sleep a night. He likes to sing for his children...
...their cells are often of the original chill flagstone; their mattresses are made of coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...
...Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong, but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China...
...Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong, but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China...
...hour information service, thus spare the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, who democratically answers his own phone at Lambeth Palace even in countless wee-hours calls. "When the telephone rings at midnight," asked one assembly delegate, "is it resented as an intrusion on one's sleep or welcomed as an opportunity to spread the Gospel?" Said the Archbishop forthrightly: "At Lambeth it is resented...