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...feather trade was bringing in $5,000,000 a year, second only to Kimberley's diamond mines. Wild speculation broke out in land and feathers. Prices flew up to $500 a lb. in 1913, before the inevitable crash. Many an ostrich tycoon went to bed a millionaire and woke up bankrupt. Some of them trekked southward to raise oranges; the gaudy Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires...
...tell how Rosenberg had planned an escape for the Greenglass family in February 1950, when the arrest of the British spy, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, had tipped the conspirators off to the fact that the FBI and Scotland Yard were hot on their trails. "Julius came to my house and woke me up," Greenglass testified. "Julius said Harry Gold was one of Fuchs's contacts, and that Gold would undoubtedly be arrested soon and that would lead to Julius. He said I would have to leave the country...
...milligrams of cortisone. "I still don't know if it did any good," he says, "but her temperature started to rise at a sharp rate." At 3 :30 p.m. it was 77°, at 8 p.m. 86°, and her pulse and respiration were almost normal. Johnny woke up, opened her eyes and said: "I'm cold...
...Sinclair Lewis is not a great writer, America has never had one . . . Mark Twain was not a great writer until the American people woke up 50 years too late. By the same token, Walt Whitman was not a great writer, either. Nevertheless, when Lewis said: "I'm the best goddam writer in this here goddam country," drunk or sober, he was right...
...felt extra gracious it telling the host to stay where he was, that he would answer the doorbell himself. He found no one at the door but the doorbell kept ringing and ringing. Vag studied the situation. He concluded, finally, that it was the alarm clock and he woke up. With his eyes half open, he reached out to the chair beside his bed, shut off the alarm and groped for his calendar of "Things To Do Today" to find out that parties were going...