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...small room in the house on stilts was blue with cigar smoke as the three princes and the general argued the final details. Slovenly soldiers of all three factions loitered on the porch, sometimes poked their heads curiously through the glassless windows. Below, amid mud puddles and stray dogs, newsmen scrambled for vantage points...
...hope Jack Kennedy didn't call all businessmen s.o.b.s. If he did, he certainly was showing disrespect for one of the cleverest, who made it possible for him to get sunburned tootsies on the Cape while most other youngsters of his age were trying to pick up a stray buck working during the Depression...
...make a shot, then you shouldn't try it. But when you start getting cautious, you start to lose." Nobody has ever accused Palmer of caution. On the course, he is a duffer's delight: when his putts hang on the lip and his drives stray, Palmer bangs his clubs against the turf, twists his face into a grimace of pain, mutters angrily: "Stop hitting like a woman!" or "Head down, head down, for God's sake!" It is at the crucial moments, when most golfers get rattled and come unstrung, that Palmer plays his best golf...
...charge of the Dominican infirmary, he filled up the beds with ailing human derelicts whom he found lying in the streets. Be fore he died in 1639, Brother Martin had established an orphanage and foundling hospital. He loved animals as well as people, and filled the convent with wounded stray dogs and cats, which he nursed back to health. He even liked the convent mice, feeding them scraps of food and setting up a shelter for them in the garden...
...half so because the Director (Ned Leavitt) makes such clever use of the space and trees of Apthorp House. with the help of Tom Martin's lighting he creates a carefully limited stage that seems built at once to accomodate members of Theseus' court and to confuse creatures who stray into the wood. Fairies hide in the trees, lovers sleep under them, clowns extricate themselves in branches...