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...Connally victory. Yarborough tried to stir support by challenging Connally to a television debate. Connally cannily turned down the dare, whereupon Yarborough exploded: "The great Governors of the past, such as Sam Houston, Jim Hogg and Jimmy Allred. would have never placed their tails between their legs and slunk away from the challenge...
...London TV studio, Enceinte Terrible Eartha Kitt, 33. slunk before the cameras in a gown considerably more billowy than her wonted tattoo-tight attire, but not billowy enough to conceal her six-month condition. Called upon to mount a stool for one of her numbers, the sultry South Carolina songstress found it a struggle, outraged Britain's myriad Mrs. Grundys (and snarled network telephone switchboards with carping calls) by chuckling: "Okay, Junior, this is the last engagement...
...couples were dining. Three of the people quickly withdrew, but the hostess stayed put. "I cooked this breakfast," cried she angrily, "and no damned bear is going to eat it!" With that, she whacked the animal over the head a few times with her skillet, and the bear slunk...
...seen my Horrors of the Black Museum, which had played at the Varsity Theatre, and no one raised his hand. So I went over to the professor and turned his back to the class, and asked again. This time a lot of people raised their hands, and they all slunk down in their seats. Then I asked about Face in the Crowd, and practically no one had seen it--there were so few hands it was ridiculous. For Sunrise at Campobello there were even fewer...
...World War II, the 51,656-ton German liner Bremen slunk ghostlike out of New York and ran for Europe with lights out to avoid the searching British navy. War caught up with the Bremen, and British bombing and fire reduced it to a worthless hulk in its home port of Bremerhaven. Last week a new Bremen sailed into New York harbor on her maiden voyage from Bremerhaven, and the lights went on again for North German Lloyd, West Germany's biggest passenger-shipping company...