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...history's unlucky men: Edward Everett, the Massachusetts Senator (and onetime Harvard president) who delivered the two-hour "main" Gettysburg address, only to be upstaged in two minutes by Abraham Lincoln. Swift descent also once felled John Everett, when at 15 he took a sleepwalking dive from a third-floor window, breaking 36 bones and earning 4-F status in World...
...early hours of her day. Then, like the heroine of Mary, Mary, she doesn't grasp things: "I hear voices all right, but I can't pick out the verbs." After an urn or two of coffee, she begins to pick them out?on a typewriter in the third-floor master bedroom. She has given up using the celebrated Chevrolet as an office, "because I ran out of places to park. People would drive past and wave." She is still engagingly casual about her work, although, as she has remarked, "I consider any writer serious who makes more than...
Reality for Raymond, however, was a third-floor walk-up in Paris. Occasionally, he would drop in on his pretty exwife, Ginette, or drink in bistros with a few old army buddies. He traveled about Europe, supporting himself by small-scale smuggling and illegal currency deals. In Copenhagen, one of those entranced by his tall tales was a stunning, 20-year-old blonde, Ingelise Bodin, who was Miss Denmark in London's 1960 Miss World contest...
...editor-Evans plans not to interfere with the news operations. The only change he has ordered so far is to dress up the editorial page with pictures, including a half-column cut of himself. Still a zealous disciple of conservatism, he spends hours poring through its literature in his third-floor walkup apartment just around the corner from the News. He attends Roberts Park Methodist Church, devotes his evenings to political ward meetings, public rallies, municipal debates...
...Madge Lawson suffered from nothing more serious than varicose veins, but when Dr. Jacob C. Huffman drove her into the West Virginia University Medical Center in Morgantown last week she got a red-carpet reception. While press photographers' bulbs flashed. Mrs. Lawson, 72, got a bouquet from the third-floor nurses and was admitted for a specialist's consultation on whether she should have a ligation (minor surgery to tie off veins). Reason for the whoopdedo was that Dr. Huffman, president of the State Medical Association, had chosen Mrs. Lawson to be the first patient admitted...