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Manners. In Mobile, Lurline M. Kohler woke to find a stranger rummaging through her handbag, screamed, "Get out of my room!" to the would-be thief, who meekly murmured, "Yes, ma'am," put the bag down and beat...
...based on the assumption that the U.S.S.R. would acquiesce or even assist in the democratic recovery of the world. It was not until ex-Secretary of State Byrnes offered the Soviet Union a 25-year protective treaty against German militarism and was brusquely turned down that the Administration woke...
Soon after midnight, guards at old Acre Prison, near Haifa, entered his cell and shook Dov Bela Gruner until he woke up. Sleepy-eyed, bewildered, he was taken to a large, dimly lit room. There stood a gallows. There also stood three other men of Palestine's Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. This was their first notice that death had come for them...
...Miguel Alemán the new week began like all others. As soon as he woke, he stretched out his hand, and a servant put a big glass of orange juice in his groping fingers. The President propped himself up in bed, and looked around. Senate President Carlos Serrano, his close friend and political G2, was already there. So was potbellied General Antonio Grijales, chief of Mexico City's police. El Presidents downed the orange juice, swung out of bed, and touched his toes ten times without bending his knees, while he listened to the two men talk...
Lucy became a rich spinster and a legend in the town, a legend that eventually woke up to itself and had the shakes. Richter's quiet sketching of the period after the Spanish-American War, and the life of the "better families" might seem merely nostalgic in intent, if it were not for the touches that finally bring bitter horror out of Lucy's narcissistic dream. At that point Richter actually makes a ghost (Lucy's dead father) walk...