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...later put up a 29-room house next door for his daughter. In the old days it took 25 to 30 servants to staff the mansion. They worked in a big kitchen that was white-tiled to the ceiling, waited on Steelmaker Carnegie and his guests in the walnut-paneled library, took care of the vast heating plant. In the basement there is still a mining car, with its own track and turntable, to take coal from the bunker to the stoking floor. On cold days, it took a ton and a half of coal to heat the place...
...quit training? "I had no ambition to throw punches. I'm boxing a couple of salamis and I don't give a damn if I get hit ... I don't know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every place I go it's 'What's this bribe story?' or 'What's with the Army...
...into the Prime Minister's office in the East Block. But for the press conference, everything was back in the same order in which methodical Mackenzie King had kept it over the years. A picture of Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet on the worn, carpeted footstool inherited from his predecessor and friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier...
...days later, King George VI was sitting at his Georgian walnut desk in the lofty blue and white study of the palace, reading the morning's mail. Among the letters with embossed headings he saw Alfred's cheap writing paper and careful penmanship. He reached for it, read it twice, then handed it to his secretary with instructions...
Masquerader. He spent six months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...