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...Next day the House subcommittee fired Shacklette (but Pearson kept Anderson on, saying: "I need him"). Then, the Goldfine entourage, hastened by a belated report from Goldfine's secretary, Mildred Paperman, that her room had been rifled of important documents, moved out of the Sheraton-Carlton amid much tub-thumping and hoopla, took up new quarters across K Street in 19 rooms ($1,000 a day) at the Statler...
...been turned into eight, furnished with all of the comforts of modern civilization. Among them: a cavernous closet just for Miss Crawford's 304 pairs of shoes, another for her cosmetics and pills, a special shampoo and hairdressing basin with spray faucets, a massage table and whirlpool tub for Steele, a diamond-shaped dining-room table, a geranium-pink bedroom with wood-burning fireplace...
...grate. Two oil lamps and a green-studded gas light gave all the illumination for the room. To the end, Copey refused electricity--no light bulbs, no telephone. Smoke black from the lamps discolored the ceiling and, it was claimed by those who knew, an old-fashioned tub lay under Copey's bed. His abode was a landmark even from the outside; a yellow sponge dangled from his window by a string, the butt of such fond humor as this Lampoon poem...
...home with the great artist. As a result, Duncan took more than 10,000 photographs, last week published in The Private World of Pablo Picasso (Harper; $4.95 ; Ridge Press paperback; $1.50) a photographic record of Picasso's private life. The scenes range from a scrub in a tub and carving a chicken ("Could have been carved just about as daintily-and just as fast-by stuffing it with a hand grenade") to all-night engraving sessions during which "Picasso's companion, Jacqueline Roque, watched him, sleepy and adoring...
Unfortunately, it does not take much of this to turn the hotel clerk into a genuine Hollywood cowboy, and as soon as he gets back to that Chicago hotel, he proceeds to demonstrate his he-manity. Superb in a steaming tub he sits, swigging his quart and sucking his Havana and languidly, when the spirit moves him, blasting away at the roaches on the walls with his trusty...