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...next day. Unawed by the glare of television lights or the big, crowded chamber, she pulled off her right glove with a quick movement, shook hands with Speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Alben Barkley, took out her speech-most of which she had written herself-tilted her chin toward the galleries, and went right to work...
...When the authorities at Austria's Wagna refugee camp tried to question him, he could only stare at them with round, uncomprehending eyes. At last his data was entered in the records: "Name-unknown; parents-unknown; place of birth-unknown; height-141 centimeters. Identifying features: scar on chin; scar on belly. Deaf and dumb...
After Stonyhurst, Charles was sent to London, to learn hotelkeeping at Claridge's. He spent most of his spare time, and all his money, at the theater; he managed to see Chu-Chin-Chow 13 times. In World War I, Laughton was a private by choice ("Something told me I might not be the kind of fellow to take command of men under fire"), was gassed and invalided home. He spent the next five years in Scarborough, ostensibly working in his family's hotel; actually, he was hanging about amateur theatricals. His persistence paid off. His family gave...
...Town TV show. At the moment he went on the air, a young man named Paul Gregory happened to drop into a Manhattan bar. He stared entranced at the bar's TV set as Laughton .dramatized his readings by balletlike turnings of his heavy body, ducking his dewlapped chin into his collar, shooting sly glances from his spaniel-sad eyes. Greatly excited, Gregory phoned Laughton at his hotel, went up to see him the next afternoon, and stayed long into the night. By the time he left, he had convinced Laughton that he should go on a cross-country...
...boys think they're pretty hot," Barnaby says, "but I think we may take it on the chin for the first couple of matches. After that, there should be a sharp up-grade, and we'll do all right...