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Edward K. Dunham III '55 was the only person to wake up during the burglaries. The thief had entered his bedroom to rifle his clothes just before seven and woke him up. Dunham turned over in bed and the thief field before finding Dunham's wallet. He had already taken a wallet with one or two dollars from Dunham's roommate, Frank F. Davidoff...
...woke his wife, a former secretary, to type up a statement. It took him 90 minutes to write 117 words suggesting that Wilson's appearance should be canceled. About 3:30 a.m. he called Fred Gillies, state G.O.P. campaign manager. "I've got to do this, Fred," the governor said. About 4:30 a.m.-just in time for morning newscasts-he personally phoned his statement to statehouse reporters...
...their heads. Deborah Marie and Christine Mary were born (by Caesarean section) a fortnight ago to Norene Andrews, 35, a former nurse, wife of a meat salesman, and mother of a normal five-year-old girl. The twins, who weighed about 6 Ibs. each at birth, ate normally, and woke or slept independently of each other, were united in much the same way as the famed Brodie twins (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952, et seq.) with one obvious exception: the Brodie boys faced the same way, but the Andrews girls face in opposite directions, so that when one lies...
...American citizen." The Navy, Smith said, had been a "little naive" in swallowing everything that poison-tongue informants had said about Chasanow, who had made enemies (as well as scores of friends) in the intense local politics of Greenbelt, Md., where he lives. Said Chasanow: "It seems like I woke up from a bad dream. The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The flowers are blooming...
...plain "Willy," met little Gabrielle Colette in Châtillon-Coligny, he was "completely stunned" by the sight of her long, braided hair and "airy grace." At their wedding dinner in 1893, 20-year-old Colette drank too much champagne and fell fast asleep over the table. "As I woke up, I heard my husband's voice...