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...London apartment, robbery-prone (three times in four years) Skating Star Sonja Henie woke with a scream, then dashed into the street in a barefoot, unsuccessful pursuit of thieves who had stripped her bedroom of an Aleutian mink coat ($18,000), an ermine coat ($7,000), a mink jacket ($3,500), two gold compacts, $840 in cash...
...into his Lancia one day in 1949 and headed south through the boot of Italy for a vacation. When night fell, the count stopped at one bug-ridden hotel after another, looking for a place to sleep, but found them all booked solid. Marzotto finally slept in his car, woke up rumpled and resolved. He dashed back to Rome, called on President Einaudi and Premier de Gasperi, and asked: "Do you realize how much good tourist money Italy is losing by not having developed southern tourist trade? Why not build hotels and hotels and hotels?" Since...
...march north to the P.W. camp at Kanggye lasted 18 days. Treffery woke up one morning to find his feet frozen. Within minutes the Chinese had him marching again. The Chinese turned the prisoners over to the North Koreans. "The Koreans were worse than the Chinese," found Treffery. "They have no feeling for human beings. They'd stick our men with bayonets and laugh and joke about it." Eighty of 120 made it to Kanggye...
...supposed to read. Said he: "I had a nightmare the other night. I dreamed I was in a room stacked to the ceiling with files of official documents. I couldn't get out of the room until I read every one of those documents. It was frightening. I woke up in a cold sweat...
Suddenly the fervent price-support Democrats woke up to the fact that Benson was carrying a modified free-economy philosophy right into their own back pastures. Said Minnesota's Representative Eugene J. McCarthy, "[Benson] is like a man standing on the bank of the river telling a drowning man that all he needs to do is take a deep breath of air." Alabama's Senator John Sparkman said that Benson had "in effect repudiated the price-support program." (One notable exception: New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, Harry Truman's ex-Secretary of Agriculture, who agreed "with...