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...during World War II. "Look up old Grace." Old Grace is his young fiancee. The marquis looks Grace up-and down. "We will marry immediately," he announces. They marry. Four days later the marquis heads back to the wars, and poor Grace (Deborah Kerr) has nothing to do but stitch rugs and eat for two (Sigi is born at the height of the blitz). Nine years later she is still stitching rugs and, as her father (Ronald Squire) puts it, "getting a bit weedy." The Marquis of Valhubert has been 1) captured by the Germans, 2) interned by the Russians...
...Swastika. What seems clear is that New Haven police charged and swung their nightsticks with unnecessary relish as they tried to disperse a crowd that probably did not need dispersing. One Yalie got an eight-stitch dent in his skull, and a young, chesterfield-wearing history teacher was arrested and then, he claims, punched in the kidneys. A fire truck showed up, hosed down a dormitory that had a swastika and yacht flags in its windows. By the end of the brawl, 16 Yalemen, most of them the worse for wear, had been wagoned off to police headquarters-where they...
...23rd child of an Archibald Patch, Pa. coal miner. Gibbons has long kept his gunbarrel eyes fixed on personal power. He armed himself with courses at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, organized Chicago schoolteachers, then gravitated to St. Louis to stitch a handful of loose-knit locals into a Gibbons whole. When this was gathered into the Teamster fold, Hoffa and Gibbons formed an alliance under which Hoffa is the muscleman and Gibbons the strategist. "Gibbons," Jimmy once said in undisguised admiration, "there are some men in Detroit who dislike me-but those fellows back there in St. Louis...
...Jack reads a skit called "Famous Last Words" and discards it as no good. Finally he begins to stitch together a few lines himself for his opening monologue, thinking aloud, jotting down the words in a stenographic notebook. "We have a wonderful evening planned just as soon as the show is over . . . This show comes to you in compatible color; this means my shirt and socks match...
...sees God in a naked woman; a love-starved spinster named Alice Hindman; and the local doxy, one Louise Trunnion. As Anderson had done, Choreographer Saddler used the inflamed observations of George Willard, Elizabeth's son and a reporter for the Winesburg Eagle, as the thread to stitch the incidents together...