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Johnson's big trouble was that so many of the good things in life are not really free. Bamu, for example. She was a real Nigerian beauty, "with a skin as pale and glistening as milk chocolate, high, firm breasts, round, strong arms." Johnson, "black as a stove," all floppy arms and legs, and with a body "as narrow as a skinned rabbit's," tried to soften up Bamu with sweet talk: "What pretty breasts-God bless you with them." But Bamu could not be honeyed, she had to be bought. After a full day of hysterical bargaining...
...include being jabbed in the arm with a needle, there are other divertissements. For years there used to be a tall, cadaverous man standing in front of Jack's Lighthouse whose hobby was matching single men with single women. He wore a black suit and tie and a high stove-pipe hat that held a sign labeling him "The Mayor of Scollay Square...
...pleased to read your Aug. 20 article on Father Hofstee at Tala. When I first heard of him, a few years ago, he was living in a makeshift hut in the leper colony, eating canned goods that he cooked over a portable stove. I hope your article will inspire some readers to assist him in the tremendous task he has assumed of rehabilitating these unfortunate people...
Cyanide in the Soup. The major liked minestrone. On the night of Dec. 6, Tozzini fixed a big pot of the soup. Holohan sat down with his back to the stove, and Manini slipped potassium cyanide into Holohan's bowl. Holohan took a few spoonfuls. The soup burned, he said. The major doggedly ate on, said that he felt sick, and reeled upstairs to vomit...
...Clark apartment. Out the window, to the accompaniment of cheers from the crowd, went all of the Clarks' furniture, including a piano. Then the young vandals tore out door and window jambs, gouged holes in the walls, ripped out light fixtures, smashed radiators, a refrigerator and stove, bashed in the toilet bowl. For good measure they ripped up two apartments below the Clarks (the tenants, like most of the 19 families in the apartment house, had long since fled). Then the mass of broken furniture on the lawn was set afire and the cheers grew louder. Police...