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...idea into reality was more complicated. After starch proved unworkable, he tried JellO, but found it had a tendency to decompose. Reverting to simplicity, he hit upon the idea of using masses filled with water. In his first experiments, he used only cold water, but found that he "woke up with my bottom feeling like ice." A radiant-heat unit solved that problem, and after Hall spent 18 months trying to interest manufacturers and dealers in his home area of San Francisco, King Koil Sleep Products decided to try the water...
...Michele puts it, "Dad just woke up one day and said, 'I know I've waited 50 years too long, but now I'm going to do something...
...nine singles and twelve strikeouts. The first extra-base hit did not come until the eighth inning, when the Orioles' Brooks Robinson tripled and the American Leaguers took a 4-to-1 lead. The National Leaguers, powered by the Giants' Dick Dietz and Willie McCovey, finally woke up in the ninth to tie the score and send the game into extra innings. The spectators who remained, including Richard Nixon, were rewarded with a rare slam-bang finish...
...first night in New York, I couldn't sleep in the creaky beds at the YMCA, so I woke up at six in the morning. I put on my yellow shirt, sport coat and tie, and walked down 42nd Street. Times Square was the only part of New York I had heard about. My father was born in Brooklyn, near Myrtle Avenue, and from him my brother and I learned about the push carts, the subways, and the City: "As you walk up Broadway, it's Washington Square, Union Square, Herald Square, then Times Square, boys...
...University of Chicago, like many another converted introvert, he woke up to performing. Wit is far more often a shield than a lance; " Mike set up a complex of defenses that (TM) made him the fastest tongue in the Midwest. The second fastest was a hostile = chick named Elaine May. It was love I at first fight. "Elaine held me like an autistic child," Nichols remembers. The child bride he had taken at 19 was cast off. Elaine became a surrogate, although, says Mike, "it was much too serious for marriage." And much too funny not to play...