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...Success," Maurice Chevalier confided to Columnist Elsa Maxwell, "is like a squirrel. Try to catch it and it runs away. Lie down in the sun, close your eyes, and hold out a nut-and perhaps...
Perfectionists. Near Wolfsville, Md., C. Wesley Swope Jr., out practicing his imitation of squirrel chatter, was shot and wounded by C. Wesley Swope Sr., out squirrel hunting...
...boiled a ground squirrel shot by Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...
Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...
...Squirrel-toothed Joe DiMaggio (TIME, July 14), the man who makes the World Champion New York Yankees run, won the Baseball Writers' award as the American League's "most valuable player of 1947." One vote behind him: unlucky Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, who also finished second to Joe six years ago, after batting a spectacular .406. The National League's most valuable player: Third-Baseman Bob Elliot of the third-place Boston Braves...