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From his earliest expatriate days, when he knew James Joyce and Gertrude Stein at Sylvia Beach's Paris bookshop, Hemingway plainly enjoyed being a celebrity among celebrities. He went fishing with Charles Ritz, the Paris hotel man, and considered fighting a duel over Ava Gardner, whose honor somebody had insulted. In Paris he invariably cultivated Georges Carpentier, the prizefighter turned saloon owner; in New York he befriended Restaurateur Toots Shor, and despite an often-expressed desire for privacy, went on the town with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into...
...picked his prose teachers well, starting with the King James Bible. His love of nature and the vernacular, together with a kind of barefoot male camaraderie, linked him fraternally with Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn. Hemingway was the first of the '205 expatriates to knock on Gertrude Stein's door, and he learned the most. She taught him the impact of simple repetition and the rhythm of words...
...friends where their money went." For Cinemactor Charlton (BenHur) Heston, Beckett designed a bathroom with a huge sunken Roman tub, dressing rooms, steam room, and a small outdoor gymnasium. Other Beckett bathrooms have magazine racks, telephones, sun lamps over the sink and reading lamps over the toilet. For Jules Stein, chairman of the huge M.C.A. talent agency, Beckett provided his master touch: a special rack for toothbrushes, one for each day of the week, each cleaned by ultraviolet light...
Dunster House: Robert E. Smith, Mark H. Mullin, Maarten Henkes, David G. Gullette, William H. Bailey, John F. McJennett, Arthur H. Stein...
Kirkland's starting pitcher, Bob Stein, finally settled down to strike out 12, allowing nine walks and six hits. The Deacons' seven hits sent Calhoun's starter, Bill Moshary, to the showers for the first time this season. Kirkland's defensive standout was catcher Frank Ward...