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...girl was a slender French blonde, and only 16. That summer of 1910, when the mornings were warm and clear, she would go down to the shores of Lake Annecy in the French Upper Savoy near Switzerland. With her was a bearded painter from Paris named Paul Chabas. At 8:30 a.m. she would slip out of her clothes and step into the chill water. The first time, she drew her body into an instinctive pose of protection against the cold. "Don't move!" cried the enchanted painter...
Shortly before World War II, the rumor spread that the frail blonde girl who had trembled for Chabas in the cold water of Lake Annecy was destitute and starving. Chabas stoutly denied it. "She is 41 now," he said at the time, "and, alas, she is no longer as slender as when she posed for me. She is happily married to a wealthy French industrialist and has three lovely children ... I think I succeeded in capturing her delicate charm. She was exactly like the picture...
...Slender, clean-cut Martin Daniels Jr., 16, had a problem, a pal and a plan. Marty's problem was his father. Martin Daniels Sr.. 35, a shiftless unemployed dockworker. Even in seedy, rough-and-tumble South Philadelphia, where the Daniels family lived in a three-room, $50-a-month apartment, Daniels Sr. was known as a hard-drinking no-good with a long record of arrests-burglary, assault and battery, stabbing, and slugging a cop. He was also rough on Marty, eldest of his six sons-a roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when...
Takahashi injected 2 cc. of anesthetic into Ohmura's spinal column, and Ohmura gave himself a local anesthetic. Then the nurse handed the patient a scalpel. Squinting belly wards, without the aid of a mirror, slender (137 Ibs.) Dr. Ohmura made a 2-in. vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down...
...Revolution had hacked to pieces 114 bishops and priests, thrown their dismembered bodies into the Seine. The cardinal uttered a short prayer for the peace of their souls, then went on up the "stair of the martyrs" and entered the Salle des Actes, smiling and gesturing with slender hands. Before him, four cardinals, 20 archbishops, 90 bishops-most of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in France-rose in silent respect to Achille Cardinal Liénart, Bishop of Lille and, at 73, their ranking prelate...