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...Fall in Love, when between the countless jittery "takes" the orchestra rushed to telephones: it was Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe him in a 23rd-floor studio. Between these diplomatic feats, Leonard Joy picks names for pieces by inarticulate musicians (sample: Child of a Disordered Brain...
Percy could remember his French grandmother, Mère, who had to sit day & night strapped in a chair so that she could breathe. "One night [Mère] woke suffocating. Mother said: 'It will be all right, it will pass. . . .' But Mère gasped: 'C'est la mort.' Mother leaned to her and whispered: 'Tu n'as pas peur?' Mère steadied herself on the arms of her chair and said distinctly and firmly...
Chairman Vinson spilled the secret after telling the Bureau of Ships that he intended to do so. One morning Rear Admiral Walter Stratton Anderson, director of Naval Intelligence, woke up to find the Navy's precious table printed in an extension of Vinson's remarks in the Congressional Record (whence it was speedily extracted by the press). Put down in one place for all to see, the Navy's summary was probably more complete than any that a foreign agent could compile from the most careful collection of individual contract announcements...
...rump to make it face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt for his rhinoceros whip, jumped to his feet, whipped the leopard out of the tent and into the jungle. Walking back to his tent, feeling bad about...
...well as modernized Japan, his influence kept in check such passionate young revolutionaries as Colonel Hashimoto. He was a lover of ceremonial silks, of austere rituals of tea and wine. He had a nightingale for a pet and he tended pots of orchids with his own hands. He woke each day to contemplate an ancient plum tree silhouetted against the white paper shoji-screen. of his bedroom. He represented also the West: constitution-maker, reader of French philosophy, always abreast of international inventions such as Naziism...