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...budgeted his time: he lived with wife No. 2 from midnight to 8 a.m., with wife No. 5 from 5 p.m. until midnight, and with wife No. 4 whenever he had some spare time. He admitted, however, that he had found it necessary to divorce wife No. i and split up with wife No. 3 before his schedule clicked. Said he in jail: "I'd like to get some rest...
...turn into a multithousand dollar bonanza. So far, no buyer has made a solid offer. But Barber John Cantarini is taking no chances: after threatening court action on the ground that his wife had sold the bust without his consent, he got Orsini's agreement to an even split...
Something was the matter with Hugh Walpole's pants. "Suddenly the back of my bags split." says his diary in October 1906, "and I had to rush home." Same thing at a dazzling ball in 1914: "Saw everyone-great fun only my trousers split." But it was not only his trousers which kept leaving Walpole open to ridicule. All prepared to lecture on Charles Dickens, he would mount the platform only to find the subject was expected to be "Life Begins at Fifty." In Westminster Abbey, at George VI's coronation, it was Walpole's invitation card...
...from the South." This comment contained considerable truth. Sparkman was not picked because he has a popular or party following, and certainly not because he has shown qualifications to be the heir apparent to a President. He was put on the ticket to bridge the North-South split. The leaders who picked him hope that Northern liberals will accept him despite his stand against civil rights legislation, and that uncompromising Southern conservatives will not consider him a traitor. He has been straddling the gap inside the Democratic Party of the South for so long that he was a natural prospect...
...apprentices on dailies in Cairo, were turned down because they were too young. They found an unemployed clerk, armed him with samples of their work and got him hired on a paper. For months they worked as his ghost. Because they worried about being so much alike, they split up and went to different colleges; Mustafa to Georgetown to study international relations, Ali to Sheffield in England to take mechanical engineering...