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...quick Andover penalty followed and McLoughlin again responded for his third goal of the day on a pass from John Grogan. But both momentum and time ran out on the Crimson's comeback try when Andover put a hot wax shine on their margin with a final rally at 11:36 of the final stanza...
...measure of a person's importance is the distance between the radiator and his statue in Madame Tussaud's wax museum. Last week Lord Snowdon, returning to London for the first time since the announcement of his separation from Princess Margaret, discovered another yardstick. His Tussaud statue has not been melted. But it has been carted up to a storeroom above the exhibition hall. Tony will have some company in exile. Among his companions in the closet: former President Richard Nixon, who was removed from view after his resignation...
...TRUE LETTER...should be as a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind." So, in 1907, 25-year-old Virginia Stephen--soon to become Virginia Woolf--began her first long letter to Clive Bell, her new brother-in-law. Yet what follows is one of the most awkward, befuddled, pretentious things she ever wrote. Rather than simply telling him she has gotten a telegram, she writes...
...hoping it would somehow rub off on Long Beach, city fathers and race promoters three years ago began organizing a Monaco-style race through the city streets. There were a few problems, of course. Long Beach harbors seldom entice millionaires' yachts, and the local royalty consists entirely of wax dummies aboard the Queen Mary museum. But Grand Prix supporters predicted that the challenging 2.02-mile circuit designed by former Grand Prix Winner Dan Gurney and a $265,000 prize purse would offset the deficiencies...
...ever going to be sure." He praised his team of distinguished psychiatrists for giving sensible explanations of Patty's conduct. By calling Kozol and Fort, said Bailey, the Government hoped to cause such confusion over the psychiatric testimony "that you'd fold the whole ball of wax and say, 'Well, they disagreed with each other,' and leave it there." Bailey singled out Fort for excoriation, calling him "a psychopath and a habitual liar...