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...Phelps. Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist (Chéri, Gigi, Mitsou, Claudine) the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
...fund's administrator, Sture Youngren, 57, at first insisted: "There has been no till tapping that I can see." Last week, however, Youngren, a Sacramento insurance executive, told the district attorney's office that he and two of the men indicted for conspiring to murder Wilson had in fact tapped the till of $76,000. U.S. Labor Department investigators promptly made an appointment to meet Youngren at his office that night for further questioning. When they showed up, the office was dark. They found Youngren's body in a rest room, a bullet wound in the head...
...corridors and the whole atmosphere. . . ." From then on it was only a question of what kind of actress she would be. Her father advised her to go all out for musical comedy: "You can always go into serious theater later . . . after all, Edith Evans didn't start till she was 30." He may have been thinking that her gangling height might hinder her as a serious actress; Vanessa is 5 ft. 101 in., taller than many leading men. It was something she worried about too. Once, recalls Lady Redgrave, Vanessa telephoned her in the country: "She was sobbing great...
...front teeth. "The saber-toothed tiger," he says, "was noted for its eyeteeth. They grew and grew, giving the tiger a tremendous bite. They could just WHANG on that prey." He claps his hands together. "But this mutation kept recurring and the eyeteeth grew longer and longer, till they came down like this"?he drapes his forefingers down over his lower jaw?"and then what happened? They couldn't get a bite. So now there are no more saber-toothed tigers...
...head. Ask a competitor what makes him run and he will tell you: "It feels so good when I stop." It must-after 26 mi. 385 yds. of loping up and down hills, fighting leg cramps and nausea, cultivating blisters, dodging angry dogs and straining to hold out till the next comfort station. Such stoicism is plainly un-American-which explains why a foreigner has won every Patriot's Day marathon in almost a decade. Last week was no exception: the winner was Japan's Kenji Kimihara, 25, who pit-patted across the line...