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City Planner Julius Caesar brought some order by decreeing that carts should move only at night; those overtaken by dawn had to remain parked until sunset. He also tried to straighten out confusion in the Forum by moving the Rostra (named for the rostra, ships' prows, captured at Actium), where orators held forth, to one end of the Forum. He began the 110-yd.-long Basilica Julia, alongside the Temple of Castor and Pollux (see cut), to serve as an exchange, law court and meeting place. Caesar's successors carried on with ever-increasing grandiloquence and display, creating...
...band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless in Hollywood during the war, he put words and music to a parable he once heard in his father's church. The song: Straighten Up and Fly Right. Though he sold it outright for $50, it led to his first Capitol Records disk and helped make his voice one of the most familiar in the land...
...would take King Solomon sitting on a problem of child custody to straighten out this sordid little tangle-and he is exactly the genius invoked to turn the trick. As soon as Malcolm mentions the story of Solomon and the two mothers to his father, Bing realizes what a covetous oaf he has been, agrees to share the boy with Mary. This is all for the best because Crosby now has Inger...
Fred Loomis, disillusioned Seattle investment counselor, whom Beck hired as an adviser for Teamster investment, explained that little by little he got the wind of Dave's shenanigans, advised him more than once that it was time to straighten out his affairs. At length he fired off a "Dear Dave" letter: "There has been talk of your receiving a kickback [from a building loan in Honolulu with Teamster funds], the plain implication being that this was in accordance with a pattern. I am sure that your fiduciary duty has never been sufficiently impressed upon your mind. Accept my resignation...
...lands on The Street from nowhere in particular, blows his last buck on the booze, sells his second pair of pants to buy some more, passes out on the sidewalk, wakes up to find his suitcase stolen, takes a day's work as a crate hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides "to get off this Bowery-I'm goin' to Chicago. Gonna...