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...tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready for surrender, Gary is fit for a strait jacket...
...found hanging by his necktie from the top of a folding bed, which had been pushed into its place against the wall, according to police. He was completely clothed and was wearing a smoking jacket. He had evidently been studying up to the hour of his death since opened law books and papers were still lying on his desk...
Waiter Marlowe found it hard to get used to the poor wages and strait-jacket discipline of English waiters, but harder to stomach the double-dyed snobbery of his fellows, the hyper-finickiness of aged guests. He was mighty glad to go to sea again. Three months after her maiden voyage he made a trip on the Queen Mary. It was his hardest job. Eighteen-hour shifts, plus the teeth-rattling vibration in crew quarters directly over the propellers, made him pine for land once more...
Holder of a minor political office, Mr. Lee further states that Harvard has put education in a "straight-jacket," stultifying every effort of the schools to introduce courses designed to prepare students for the modern world. In this connection, he mentions Boston University and Boston College as doing a better job than their distinguished contemporary across the Charles...
...British Reuters News Service. A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing for the war in a shepherd's plaid shooting jacket and ponderous suede shoes...