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...second such event occurred shortly after his arrival at Muidanek, a camp which Pisar says is little known only because so few survived. One day during roll call, all tailors were told to remain standing at attention, while the others were ordered dispersed. "My intuition told me to stand still." Pisar remembers. "When the SS officer got to me he asked me if I were a tailor I answered. Sir, I am no a tailor, but a buttonhole maker." Something must have clicked in the officer's mind because he told me to got to the right--the side...
...might use any incident to send in troops. When Király arrived with a security unit to be sure the Soviet embassy was not being besieged, he found everything strangely quiet. He banged on the heavy oak door and was finally received by a tall, handsome man in tailor-made evening clothes. It was Ambassador Andropov. Standing behind him, as if on dress parade, was the entire embassy staff. Andropov brushed aside the protest as a misunderstanding and joked that the only Hungarian harassment that day had been from "two old ladies looking for a warm place to stay...
...publisher offers to publish her book on the condition that she change the title from I Await the Devil's Coming to My Story Mary McLane. May readily acquiesces while Mary rages in the background. If she could do it over again, she insists she would refuse to tailor her work to the mores of turn-of-the-century-America. Despite the title change as it turns out society ostracizes Mary who never succeeds in producing another work...
...paper, conditions seemed tailor-made for a resounding Democratic victory. Illinois is economically depressed. Plants have shuttered or hightailed it out of the state in record numbers. Stevenson, the thoughtful eldest son of the state's two-time Democratic presidential nominee, has the shiniest Democratic name around. How could he lose...
Schnabel's work is tailor-made to look...