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...recall the brave days. Storyteller Johnson's memories are authentic; she grew up in Whitefish, Mont. with wide ears for tall tales. Her characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor. One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked, is the tale of an unheroic cowboy who inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter...
...ease the pain. As soon as she was asleep, Dr. Evenou rang the phone in Simone's apartment twice. A moment later, his mistress stood beside him in her stocking feet. Dr. Evenou uncovered his wife's breast. "Strike here!" he said. Simone struck, and Marie-Claire woke in a shock. "Simone," she cried. "No. No." Dr. Evenou held her close in his arms. "There, there," he whispered tenderly. "Everything's all right." Marie-Claire relaxed. As the doctor stood aside, Simone struck once again. The lovers kissed. Then Simone went to the bathroom to wash...
...Bang! And the fight started. They made it up in a nearby bistro. There they consumed a large number of bottles of wine, and exchanged coats several more times . . . Biff! Bang! Wallop! And they were at it again, landing up in the gutter, where they went to sleep, and woke up at dawn to find that they had been robbed...
...Pianist Rudolf Serkin called on his fellow artists to make the festival "an expression of our love, devotion and gratitude for Casals." Pablo Casals was characteristically less concerned about himself than about the music he would not be able to play. "What a pity," he murmured when he woke from a nap under his oxygen tent. "Such a wonderful orchestra...
...Rochester, Harold Skellen woke up after Saturday-night celebrations feeling so terrible that he went to a hospital, was treated there for a fractured left arm, a broken nose, two black eyes, and head and face cuts requiring 79 stitches...