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Young Ana got a job teaching Hebrew at Temply Coral Synagogue school. She was a slender young girl with even features; one of her students remembers her as gentle and kind, with unruly brown hair which she kept tossing off her forehead...
Setting her designer's mind to work, Elsie soon had a dress that made Edna look both slender and stylish. A clamor for copies convinced Elsie and Edna that they should go into business. They pooled $500, hired three seamstresses and rented a small shop in a strategic location-the Medical Arts Building, where most Dallas obstetricians have offices. Thus, ten years ago, began a business that has grown until it is now a U.S. merchandising sensation: Page Boy maternity clothes...
...Slender Lead. It was the fourth consecutive shutout by Manager Lou Boudreau's Indians, tying a league record set by Cleveland in 1903. What did Satch think of his performance? Said he, matter-of-factly: "I'm getting back in shape." But it would take more than Satch Paige in shape for Cleveland to clinch its first pennant in 28 years. The Indians promptly dropped three in a row to the White Sox, and hung precariously to their lead...
...World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender, malaria-sallowed big-game hunter named P. J. Pretorius. A Briton raised in the Transvaal, he had spent his life in the jungle. When he had completed his war chores (he became chief scout to Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, who has written a foreword for this book), he slipped back into...
...studio on the third floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, the Candid Microphone show had just gone off the air. The boys in the studio orchestra slowly began to pack up their instruments before heading for home or a Sixth Avenue bar. One man, a short, slender trumpeter with a tiny mustache, was in a hurry. Robert Leo Hackett stowed away his shining horn, flung out a hurried good night and left. Twenty minutes later he slipped into Nick's famed Greenwich Village jazz-and-gin mill, and stepped to the leader's place on the stand...