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...into his dress (mostly blues, greys and blacks), his carefully modulated speech, even his taste in cars. In 1963, when he was awarded a Corvette as a prize for being the most valuable player in the World Series, Koufax called up a friend and sighed: "It's a toy-but what the hell." He is rarely seen in the Sunset Strip nightspots, hates the telephone so much that he used to hide it in the oven He even refuses to hire an answering service because that would mean calling back. "If it's important," shrugs Sandy, "they...
...their jobs in the city to crowded Kwa Mashu, the native "location" ten miles away. Suddenly, reported an observer, "as I looked along the track, I saw the electric unit at the tail end topple over." With it came the train's last passenger compartment, bouncing like a toy over the jagged fill of the roadbed...
...right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach...
...From the start, recalls Fellow Border Reiver Ian Scott Wat son, "Jim drove so fast that most people were scared stiff to sit next to him." Among the 150-odd trophies lying around the 500-year-old farmhouse at Edington Mains is a block of black wood with three toy cars (a Porsche, a Triumph, a Jaguar) mounted on top, along with the inscription...
...girl murders a Dutch hostage taken by the pirates, thus setting the stage for the film's incisive postlude. Safely delivered to England, her former captors gone to the gallows charged with her crime, Emily, like any pretty English schoolgirl, stands by a pretty English pond watching a toy sailboat drift away. Only the eyes reveal that within her child's body dwells a pint-sized Circe attuned to evils as old as the human heart...