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...save her the nuisance of fittings. Also on order is a new diamond necklace to add to a collection that includes a magnificent, 150-year-old Venetian collar of diamonds and emeralds, besides more ordinary pieces. At night Callas' favorite rite is to soak leisurely in the bath, steep herself in buckets of cologne, and then (after a careful weigh-in on the bathroom scale) to go to bed "feeling absolutely luscious." Perfumed, glowing and gowned in slinky silk, she lies awake late into the night-studying scores while husband
...enough good seats, the scalper has to tap several sources. He has friends mail in for tickets for potential hits, buys other tickets through theater benefits, paying the steep benefit markup. He also buys directly from the box office or from reputable brokers, often luring assistants to help him, since his money still speaks louder than the New York Department of Licenses, which has fruitlessly tried to end illegal ticket practices. Some small-timers find it profitable to sell their position in line for My Fair Lady's 30 standing-room tickets a day for as much...
...Pygmies live on high, steep slopes, where they were driven by the bigger, fiercer people of the Ramu valley, and Father Gusinde found them the poorest of the poor. Their rudimentary culture is preStone Age; their few stone weapons and tools they did not make for themselves but got from Stone Age neighbors. In spite of the mountain cold, they wear only G-strings and their little grass huts contain nothing but ashes from their fires. Food is usually scarce, and women are scarcer. Male births among the Pygmies, says Father Gusinde, outnumber female births four to one, and young...
...lapilli, pumice and ash would pass over. Then, in the midst of the blinding storm and blackening cinders, he attempted flight and sank deep into the growing piles of lapilli. He fought his way past the gates of the city, but once outside the walls, instead of following the steep incline of the road, he wandered exhausted and breathless, turned to go back, then fell to the ground in a spasm of asphyxiation. The falling ashes formed a sepulchre around his body...
...Shelburne Falls, Mass., after he had raided the Shelburne Falls V.F.W. Club on six separate nights, made off with a total of $820. George H. Upton decided that his usual route to the club had become too risky, swam 400 ft. across the Deerfield River, clambered up a steep bank, found nothing else to steal in the clubhouse, spotted a dime that post officials had pasted on the wall "for the convenience of robbers." used it to call police, dejectedly swam back across the river, gave himself...