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Jerry Witt of Andover, Mass., tried stuffing his egg inside a missile of Italian bread. "If it breaks, I'll make French toast," he joked. The egg broke...
...Telemail network and reading on her screen any overnight telexes from her clients. Tapping a few keys, she scans the electronic version of USA Today before switching to another network, the Source, and perusing the A.P. and U.P.I. news wires. "I can get along without my morning toast and coffee," she says, "but I can't leave home without going on-line first...
...later years Richardson always had a silver tankard of champagne waiting for those who visited him backstage. Once, when Guinness came by, he rose and made a military-style toast: "To Jesus Christ. What a splendid chap!" Another time, when they were both starring in Doctor Zhivago, Sir Alec walked into Richardson's hotel suite in Madrid. "Who can one hit," said Richardson, "if not one's friends?" -- and punched him in the jaw. By the time Guinness raised himself from the floor to ask what was going on, Richardson was sound asleep in an armchair...
...door a crack. New York-based Merrill Lynch became the first foreign company to take a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and start trading. Before Merrill Lynch's team of eleven traders made their debut on the exchange floor, they gathered at the company's Tokyo office to toast the venture with whisky, beer and sake. "It is a historic time for us and Japan," said Walter Burkett, a general manager. Merrill Lynch will soon be joined on the exchange by two other New York firms, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, and three British companies, Jardine Fleming, Vickers...
...year-old title, hurtles around the dining room of his country estate, ablaze with rage and grief. He does not mind that his giddy young wife lies dead on the floor, accidentally slain by him as she prankishly impersonated a ghost. What really inflames him is that the breakfast toast has gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells...