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...convicted on charges of aiding the Resistance, spent 57 days in a death cell. When he kept up his work with the underground after his release, the Germans sent French collaborators to kill him; Kir survived only because a bullet aimed at his heart hit a thick notebook in his chest pocket...
...Robert Louis Stevenson's wife remembered Hardy as "a pale, gentle, frightened little man that one felt an instinctive tenderness for, with a wife-ugly is no word for it!" While Hardy suffered his fright in silence, Emma kept score of her numerous grievances against him in a notebook titled "What I Thought of My Husband"; Hardy himself discovered it as he was going through his wife's effects after her death and found it so appalling that he threw it in the fire...
...Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary obeisance to Emma's perpetual pains-her lame knee and sprained ankle, chills and influenza, shingles and failing eyesight. A reader can easily sympathize with a wry line in her husband's notebook: "Love lives on propinquity, but dies of contact...
...touchdowns. It is the best college football team in the U.S.-but it exists only on paper. All season long, perched in some remote corner of the stadium, immune to the blare of the band and the frenzy of the fans, the professional football scout sits with notebook and binoculars, looking for tomorrow's men among today's boys. Last week, as they prepared to back their choices with cash (and lots of it) in the annual players draft, the scouts of both professional leagues took time out to compile their dream team of the nation...
...this notebook. According to Author McLaughlin, "Insult, not flattery, is the great aphrodisiac." It's good for aphorists...