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Chanteuse Marjane, 30, could hardly be more pleased with her U.S. debut. Bom in Boulogne and raised in Vienna, she wanted to be a lawyer-"I was such a talker!" Then "I thought I would be an actress. Actors and lawyers, they are the same in many ways." But when she started "to pay attention" to songs, "they captured me, and I think no more of this acting-I must sing...
...genius is, in absurd juxtapositions and non sequiturs. His prose is made of sentences which have less and less to do with the preceding ones; each is a fresh beginning, fresh with new, vivid effrontery and traveling away from the point, like the words of an incurable but dazzling talker who is intoxicated by his own flow...
Front-Office Punch. The man who made the Journal what it is today is Harry Johnston Grant, a square, muscular dynamo of a man with white hair and bloodshot blue eyes. An omnivorous reader, he is also an overpowering talker with a Walt Whitman-like flood of words (studded with four-letter ones) and a sincere belief that the successful operation of the paper is a public trust. He is purposely unknown to most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most...
Prompt Response. Both systems put a severe strain on the pilot. Besides flying his airplane and watching intently for the first sight of the ground below, he must also watch the ILS instruments or listen to the GCA talker, or do both to check one against the other. When the plane gets near the ground, both landing systems abandon it. The pilot must make the final approach and landing himself, though the visibility may still be too poor for him to see the ground properly. With the pilot's attention so completely occupied, any emergency, such as minor mechanical...
Besides being a man of varied talents and striking personality, the late Robert T. Nelson was a great talker. Before his death in 1935, he awed his friends' by being able to discourse windily for hours on almost any subject. Among his accomplishments was his "discovery," around 1918, of an "element" now called vrilium, to which he attributed prodigious curative powers. Nelson did not explain exactly what he thought vrilium was, but he did claim that it was "radioactive...