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...group of friends, and some-one's bound to reveal a horror story of a crushed tuxedo shirt or lost black pants. Moreover, when they do come back, it's a mystery whether or not they were actually cleaned or just placed in the plastic bag on a cheap hanger. Who knew of these problems back at home...
...mule at a mirror and haven't been able to find comfortable shoes for seven years." But instead she finishes with "I don't look at my horoscope as much as I used to." Okay, maybe flying all the way to Milan only to act like a human clothes hanger for 16 hours at a stretch gives one a real feel for the anticlimactic. Maybe even for the totally useless. What this magazine did for me is confirm my (seemingly common-sense) belief that regular, real people are far more interesting than stars. And not so long ago, you, Jane...
...women smuggled in to work in the teeming sweatshops and restaurants of New York City's many Chinatowns. "Here we live like pigs and eat like dogs," says Son Li, 66, who arrived four years ago and works 12-hr. shifts seven days a week as a clothes hanger in a sweatshop on Lafayette Street, a few blocks away from the Bowery barracks. He says he makes about $1 an hour, when his employer pays. He has paid dearly for the privilege of working in America...
...appropriate historical analogue. In 19 big-league seasons with six teams, Zachary won 186 games and managed to collect two World Series rings, one with the Washington Senators in 1924 and one with the storied St. Louis Cardinals in 1926. But Zachary's best-known feat remains tossing the hanger Babe Ruth hit for number...
Ralph yanked a 2-0 hanger from Tulane reliever Scott Bell over the right-centerfield wall. The pro-Harvard--or rather anti-Tulane--crowd of LSU's Alex Box Stadium exploded as Ralph rounded the basepaths having just hit the biggest round-tripper of his impressive collegiate career...