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The next morning, bride and groom were joined in holy matrimony, and in total intoxication. Richard showed up drunk; Deboragh arrived an hour late and, according to Richard, "had to be revived after

Late Tuesday afternoon, the NSC's security officers arrived to seal up North's office. As they came in the door, Fawn Hall suddenly remembered, to her horror, that she had failed to finish the job of

One of the more forgettable of American presidents, Chester A. Arthur was an amiable man whose highest job, only a few years earlier, had been as collector of customs revenue for the port of New York

A decade ago, the World Health Organization called for the exclusion of the riskiest bovine tissues - cattle brains, eyes, spinal cord, and intestine - from the human food supply and from all animal

There's no fire without some smoke (Old Shropshire life by Catherine Milnes Gaskell) I have a sad story to tell. I feel I owe it to the world to explain why there is no annual Christmas bazaar in

If you danced at the Ad Lib club just behind the Empire Cinema on Leicester Square, as I did, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles might be grooving around next to you. David Bailey would be in the

Kevin Martin was picking up dinner last weekend when he heard a loud sound under his car. He had driven over some potholes, which left him with four flat tires and a $600 repair bill. Frustrated, he

Richard Pryor was picked to cohost The Mike Douglas Show for a week. A few months before he had appeared on the show as part of a panel that included Martha Mitchell, the free-talking wife of Nixon's

Belgians were even more upset when it became clear that their king was spending much of his newfound wealth abroad. He was soon one of the largest landowners on the French Riviera, where he built a

"Most and probably all of the distinctive infectious diseases of civilization have been transferred to human populations from animal herds." -William H. McNeill, Plagues and Peoples'" Humanity's

Ships that pass in the night (From a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Ships that pass in the night. I'd like to talk to you about this whole business of taking one's clothes off in public in

You are always auditioning If you only think you're auditioning when you're in the room with the casting director, you're missing half of it. You're auditioning when you're checking in with the

Ruth Bryant just turned 100 years old. And in all that time, she never went to jail, which bothered her. Sheriff's deputies in Person County, N.C., helped out. WRAL reports they showed up at her

Yet the show was clear-eyed and free of self-pity. Out of his suffering, Richard had extracted the story of a man who, having been pained into self-knowledge, did not rue the foolishness of his past

The most effective spokespeople of all, Morel knew, were those with firsthand knowledge. Starting in 1906, the returned Baptist missionaries the Reverend John Harris and his wife, Alice Seeley Harris

Something in the Air Viruses like influenza have only about a week to proliferate before the host kills them or, in extreme cases, they kill the host. During this contagious period there may be a

The female of the species is more deadly than the male (Rudyard Kipling, poem) You may have heard, mainly because Frank and I keep on mentioning it, that they've now published a book of these My Word

Harry Warren A major example of a typical Hollywood songwriter was the prolific Harry Warren, who was always defined as "a Hollywood movie songwriter." Warren lived from 1893 to 1981, and thus he was

The West Virginia Senate has a message for nearby Frederick County, Va. - join us. In the Civil War, West Virginia broke off from Virginia to join the Union. Now a West Virginia senator says he thinks