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...laid down from his Scarborough villa to the sea. When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge with an iron hand. Her brother, Lord Raincliffe, who had a passion for circus clowns and fire engines, often came to stay, locked himself in his room for hours every day, conducting...
...years the $462,000,000 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. helplessly watched the Axis overrun one of its properties after another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...
...craggy Yugoslav villages, where for three years the sound of aircraft had been a sign as dread as the shadow of a hawk's wing across a henyard, villagers looked up at first in fear. Then they rushed out and cheered: the big formations of heavy bombers drumming overhead in stately alignment were U.S. planes outward bound from their bases in Italy...
...walls hung eight profiles of hawk-faced Sherlock Holmes, a curved pipe pendent from his thin lips and a deerstalker cap pushed down on his dolichocephalic skull. Five orange pips lay on one table. On another stood a porcelain Hound of the Baskervilles. The guests raised their glasses, drank to Holmesian characters and places-"To THE Woman," "To Mrs. Hudson," "To Mycroft." Along with place cards, women guests found Holmesian cryptograms-a single red rose and a mysterious note: "Dear Miss -, See you at 2216. Sincerely, John H. Watson." In one corner Author Christopher Morley, in a hunting cap, peered...
Presly S. Anheuser, 32-year-old beer scion, father of two, was indicted for camouflaging himself against the draft in farmer's overalls. Owner of a 520-acre farm in Hawk Point, Mo. he was charged by a federal grand jury with obtaining a 3 C classification (agricultural deferment) by filing a false report on the number of his livestock...