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Sweating Conclusion. He stretched out on a bunk as the presidential Constellation Columbine bore him north to Washington; on arrival he went straight to the White House. He had intended to give his speech a final going-over, but instead lay down on a red satin sofa, pulled a blanket up to his chin, and sent word to the editors that he would arrive just after lunch. He seemed hale enough as he walked into the banquet hall at the Statler Hotel, and stood smiling as Hail to the Chief was pumped out by the Marine Band. His voice...
...literary friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken speaks of his visits to the Grolier as some of the most refreshing moments spent in the Square. Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune columnist, spent his undergraduate hours slouched in the shop's overstuffed sofa. Cairnic remembers him as "one of the fattest Freshmen ever to enter Harvard." T. S. Eliot was surrounded by querying students the first time he entered the shop. He answered a few of their questions and scurried out of the shop alluding to an appointment...
...talked to your present neighbor here before I came in, but he seems to live very much like you do. I mean, I don't think he can be objective about your case." I noticed that one of our sofa cushions was on the floor...
...gold bangles on the wrists of his socialite wife Alice glint rapidly in the fading light as she knits his socks. Their daughters, Rachel, 9, and Benjie, 6, study comics on the sofa...
Guided Missile. In Bridgeport, Conn., Walter Bennett, suing for divorce, testified that when he remonstrated with his wife for keeping animals on their living-room sofa, she hit him in the face with their...