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...does not know how to handle what she calls with distaste "a typing machine," she writes in longhand at a heavily scrolled oak desk, flanked by the ornate and the austere. Gilt chairs and pedestals topped with alabaster vases rest on bare, creaky floor boards while heavy gilt mirrors stare at the half-empty room...
Contestants' methods for solution varied according to their personalities. There was the impestuous, headstrong type: he would stare intently at the puzzle until divine inspiration arrived. Then he would blurt something out: "ILCHAPANA!" and would rush to the encyclopedia to check the clue--no such place. So he would go back and stare some more, and come up with another flash: "PHALACIAN!" Eventually he might get the right answer, but generally this type didn't stick to it. He would get hung up on a tough one like TWO-SCORN-POE ("In this village in western New York State, Abner...
...charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into his eyes and say: "God grant you wisdom, Mr. Davis." Later, he regrets not having "poured out his soul," but he wisely suppresses the impulse again when, in his presence. Abraham Lincoln worries about the Constitution and tells two stories of doubtful humor. Most of the speeches and conversations...
...bare 2 yds. away from the quarter back, returning his stare in challenge, waits the key man of the proud New York Giant defense: Middle Linebacker Sam Huff (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.), a confident, smiling fighter fired with a devout desire to sink a thick shoulder into every ball carrier in the National Football League...
...JAZZ 'ROUND MIDNIGHT with Fred Stare...