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...joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates him: "I longed to cross the square and start on Bedford House, then begin elsewhere, until I had demolished every great house in London; after which I'd unleash myself on the provinces and not quit till I had the razing of all such dwellings from Land's End to Carlisle. And maybe Scot land...
...fact that almost everybody develops perverse pride in abominable weather when it happens to be their own. Abroad, there are the desert tribes that profess to revere their baked domains. Similarly, the New Englander or the Minnesotan boasts about his frozen Februarys and the snow that waits till spring before uncovering the earth again. The Deep Southerner seems proud of those stifling summers that reduce everybody to sweat and distemper. Human responses to weather are, in sum, as variable as the weather itself...
...tune of $61,008; he had forged checks in the name of Robertson and others and had padded his cushiony expense account by an additional $23,000. Begelman, when found out, admitted his guilt. In almost any other industry, a company executive caught with his hand in the till would be abruptly dismissed. Not so, apparently, in Hollywood. Begelman, who submitted himself to psychiatric care, was simply suspended. After his analyst announced a cure, Begelman-who had paid back his ill-got gains-was reinstated as chief of Columbia's motion pictures and television operations...
Mark got permission from the patients and staff to live in an unused part of Ward 81. "If you're someone who photographs people, you're always an intruder," she says. "It took a while to get a rapport-the stronger photos didn't come till we got to know the women, and they got involved in the project. They felt they were making some kind of contact with the outside world...
...sell off the pair. As recently as 1933 they had brought only £10 apiece; this year their worth was estimated at $1.8 million. Generously the owner offered them to London's Tate Gallery for a bargain price of $1.4 million, giving Director Sir Norman Reid till Christmas to raise the money...