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...gold-digging ideas but not the true killer instinct. Jenny ends up as a sort of middle-aged Shirley Temple, patching up a flock of romantic tatters, curing rich old Olaf Brand's gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life is Manhattan's sotty El Morocco, where she surveys all the bibbing and napery with a waitress's eye, concludes: "I bet this place has a lot of dirty linen...
Under the hot glare of lights in the RCA-NBC television studios in Manhattan, Heavyweight Boxers Lou Nova and Patsy Perroni one afternoon in April stepped through an exhibition bout that was mostly light lefts and sweat. When it was over, Referee Arthur Donovan eyed the array of television gadgetry around him, then turned and faced the television camera. Said he, with a sweep of his arm: "I wish dis t'ing luck...
Mopping the cold sweat off his brow, he thumbed through the enclosures. One began "Would you marry rich?", another "U.S. filled with girls who are wealthy and single," still another gave descriptions and photographs of prospective spouses. "A vivacious blue-eyed blonde of 22 in search of her ideal. 5 ft., 4 in., 118 lba., sunny nature. Has property worth $10,000.00." "A lovable 54 year old widow of means. Owns a farm and a town house, and would like to find a capable mate to help her manage her affairs...
Delegates wore linen suits, shorts, sandals and open shirts to a garden party at Parliament House-which reporters called the "most informal" in Australian history-but sweat ran down their faces. When a cooling shower fell on the party, the change was too much for Scientist Ernest Clayton Andrews, past president of the congress. He was found unconscious in a rain puddle, hospitalized...
...Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished the Public Service Commissioners present to "be fair to industry, that the men & women who have money invested may gain a little interest on the money which they have earned by the sweat of their brows." When he finally did go to his executive desk at Madison and held his first press conference, he forbade reporters to smoke. He said, "What message?" when they asked what he was going to say to the Legislature. Reporters explained and he said he would "put some...