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After four days, the hiccuping subsided and he had his first good night's rest. He sent for his car to take him to the Vatican gardens for a walk. But when he finally came down to the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, bundled snugly in his white, fur-lined robe, he took a long look at the lowering winter sky and waved the car away. He returned to his apartments and went to work again-until 9:30 that evening...
There were about a dozen girls of various sixes and shapes milling around the elevator in the Sheraton-Plaza. They all looked as if they were poured from the same mold at the same time about sixteen years ago--and they all wore variations on a formless fur-collared coat...
...July 19, 1878 to hold up the Williamson County Bank. "Sam Bass," in the words of a mournful cowboy ballad, "was born in Indiana, it was his native home, and at the age of seventeen he first began to roam; he come way out to Texas a cowboy fur to be, and a kinder-hearted feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built...
...vetoed by U.S.O. officials as a menace to the cease fire agreement in Korea, showed up wearing standard G.I. winter clothing instead. For her performance, she switched to an ermine cape, then suddenly, while some 1,000 troops shouted approval, she undraped herself to reveal the brief, two-piece fur suit. Next day, orders came by way of Tokyo for Terry to leave Korea on the first plane out of Seoul. Later Terry got permission to stay, provided she stuck to the script and skipped the goose pimples. Sighed the U.S.O. unit manager: "Everything is all right now, since...
There is a press around the door as the Pope moves to leave; people rush forward to talk to him again. But his valet has already placed a small white fur cape around his shoulders, and the chamberlains wait impatiently. A last smile, and he is gone...