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Then, a few moments before noon, something happened. At third-floor level, a plane roared defiantly up the Champs-Elysées. Before the Arc de Triomphe it zoomed, then dipped in salute to the Unknown Soldier, dropped a huge, weighted tricolor. Circling, the plane thundered back down the Champs-Elysées. At the Place de la Concorde it swerved toward the Rue Royale and sent shell after cannon shell smashing into German military headquarters (once the French Ministry of Marine). The plane vanished to the northwest, followed only by a few feeble tracer bullets...
Last week in a third-floor room of Bensinger's billiard parlor in Chicago's Loop, chunky, flat-voiced Willie Hoppe, now a balding man of 52, still using his famous sidearm stroke, added the three-cushion billiard championship to the two he already held (18.1 balkline and cushion caroms). He had to compete against ten of the best players in the game, two of whom, during the course of the double round-robin tournament, succeeded in equaling previous records: one for consecutive points, the other for best (shortest) game. Playing calmly and steadily, muttering occasionally, "Come...
...morning, drives to work (solemnly saluting a statue of General Lee along the way), reaches his office at precisely 5:40. At 1:15 he drives home (again saluting General Lee), spends his afternoon working on books, articles, lectures, talks for an hour with his wife, climbs to the third-floor suite where he has a bedroom, study, bath, and a little chapel (with stained-glass window) for meditation. At exactly 8:45 he goes...
...firmly pressed the metal plunger. Another summoning of courtage, another depression of the plunger, and it was all over. Vag stood up, slipped a few coins into the small box marked P-L-E-A-S-E, and dashed out the door back to the comparative security of his third-floor room. Now there was only the anxiety of waiting for a small while envelope bearing the printed legend, "The Crimson Portro-self...
Other objects missing from the "jimmied" showcases on a third-floor room of the museum include three gold nose rings, two gold ear spools, two gold head crests, two gold strips to be sewn on clothing, two gold bird's heads, two miniature gold arm bands, two frog-shaped ornaments, two gold disks, and two other nondescript gold ornaments...