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When World War II came, Edith knitted socks, while listening to Debussy on her wind-up gramophone and downing large tumblers of gin. The Sitwell legend that had persevered since World War I seemed ready for retirement, along with the Empire...
...little after 5, Reagan thinks about getting his weekly haircut from Barber Milton Pitts. He starts in that direction, then changes his mind and returns to the Oval Office for his daily wind-up session with Deaver, Meese and Baker, each of whom he has seen on and off throughout the day. This meeting is a quick one; the staffers stand around the desk...
Memories of Larry Brown's sporting career at Harvard have a binary symmetry. For every touchdown pass, there is a shut out: for every wind-up, a roll-out. Before graduating in June, he collected records in all-league selections in both baseball and football, and established himself as one of Harvard's most talented and versatile athletes of the decades...
Kelley then came up. "We were trying the 'double squeeze' play, where the runner on second takes off on the wind-up and the runner on third when the pitcher starts to throw. Bobby (Kelley) is one of our best bunters, and being one run down it was a perfect situation for the play," coach Alex Nahigian said afterwards...
...only place in the world where the man who has everything can get lessons in how to handle America's latest aquatic tool (or toy). Sitting on a special launching ramp at the back end of Aquatic, the machine in question suggests a curious cross between a wind-up bathtub toy and a James Bond movie. It is a lemon-hued, one-man submarine, the S 250, a 12-ft.-long, 2,250-lb. vessel that can be run by just about anybody, dive safely to 250 ft., stay submerged for an hour at a time and costs...