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...nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...
...wear wide-brimmed black hats, plain black suits, and beards; the women, plain bonnets and voluminous clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide them from their neighbors, but when they do, outsiders get a glimpse of the strange life behind the curtain. Last week Hazleton, Iowa (pop. 550) was still agitated by such...
...year-round sailing compulsion. To Corny Shields, as to most other sailors, the sport is the thing, no matter what hardship is involved. Hardship? "Why," says Corny, "I keep so warm sailing that little dinghy that most of the time I don't even bother to wear winter underwear...
Pete did not understand, and thereby hangs the tale. For Scripter Pete Verrill is not many changes of underwear away from Peter Viertel, the author of White Hunter, Black Heart, who in 1951 spent some months in the Congo as scriptwriter with the company of The African Queen, which was directed by John Huston. Viertel invited Huston to read the manuscript. Said Huston: "You can write anything you want about...
...house to the home of a friend. While he was away, his own house was looted and the windows and furniture smashed. Then two dozen young hoodlums stormed the friend's home, demanding to see Chough. Four broke into Chough's bedroom, found him in his silk underwear, beat him unconscious with fists and clubs. With cuts on his head, arm and right ear, Chough was whisked off to a hospital at Suwon...