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Riposte. In Cleveland, Landlady Lea Paul complained that after she asked two female tenants to move, they: 1) packed glue into a lamp socket, 2) rubbed cold cream into the sofa cushions, 3) smeared textile bleach on the sofa, 4) glued an oriental throw rug onto the carpet, 5) poured a mixture of syrup, salt, coffee and sugar over the living room...
Died. Edward Henry Scudamore Stanhope, 63, twelfth Earl of Chesterfield, who in 1935 succeeded to the title bestowed in 1628 by Charles I; of cardiac asthma; in London. The family name "Chesterfield" survives in the English language, associated with an overcoat, a sofa and an elegant manner. Best known of the Chesterfields: the fourth earl, Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), famed for his letters...
...fire started when a defective radio cord the back of a sofa in Grays 49-50, the rooms of John L. Lorenz '55 and Edward W. Bernat...
...Send No Money." "FREE, FREE, FREE!" cried Sears' catalogue in big bold letters-then added, in small type at the bottom of the page: "to see and examine at the Express office." Once he advertised a sofa and two chairs for 95?; buyers were flabbergasted to get doll's furniture...
With his daughter's wedding reception going full tilt, and the expensive pop of champagne corks in his ears, Jefferson Selleck slinks off behind the potted palms to a corner sofa and collapses. Later that day, the family doctor gives his illness a medical name-"coronary occlusion." But Jeff Selleck, a successful Midwestern businessman, has more than heart trouble, he has a troubled heart. Slowed to an invalid's pace, Jeff begins to ask himself some embarrassing questions: "What does it all mean? Who am I? ... Why am I here, and where am I going...