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Last week Hickey lolled on a living-room couch at home, drinking a beer and puffing on a cigarette. Out of the Army with a disability discharge, he was literally a new man. He is going back to finish college, will get into condition meanwhile by taking daytime care of his 2½-year-old son while his wife is at work. "They tell me I'll never be an Olympic star," he said. "But hell, I wasn't an Olympic star before...
when I lie down on my couch...
After seeing my picture of Freud's historic analytic couch in TIME [April 23], I thought you might be interested in the story behind the series of pictures which I took of Freud and his apartment in Vienna in 1938. Shortly after the Anschluss in Austria I was approached by a good friend, Dr. August Aichhorn, a close collaborator of Freud's, to make a photographic record of Freud's apartment in order to make it possible to establish a Freud museum as soon as the storm had passed. Heavy ransom was paid to the Nazis...
...mounted a death watch. Behind shuttered doors Nicosia waited as Father Antonios, head priest of Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments. Karaolis wrote out his confession on a piece of paper. At 4 a.m. a guard nudged Antonios from a restless couch, led him to a dim room where two plain coffins stood by the wall. Because the British insisted on burial in the prison courtyard, i.e., in unhallowed ground, the Orthodox priest could not hold service. He read briefly from the Bible, then kissed each man on the forehead. They died...
...social functions, his sprigs of parsley, his actresses and courtesans, Hugo flourished in his romantic role of "Great Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...