He set about putting its 200 to 300 lines on paper, but, as he told it, after being interrupted by someone with business to transact, he was able to reconstruct only a small, mystical fragment.
In any case, Meyers was fired, as she tells it, after she protested the fact that two writers were working on the same script without the other knowing.
A self-described emotional and physical wreck while growing up in the San Francisco area, Mr. LaLanne began turning his life around, as he often told it, after hearing a talk on proper diet when he was 15.
As Mr. Weeks tells it, after Mr. Ladew admired some in a friend's garden, the friend sent the following telegraph: "Can let you have 50 naked ladies, 50 cents apiece, if you can handle them".
She brings the beast down with a bow and arrow, and then, after telling it, "I just missed your heart," finishes it off with a pistol.
Well, one day in walks this dame called Stella, wearing a long raincoat and "a ghost of a smile" on her lips... It's a long story, and Littell should be allowed to tell it, twist after twist after twist.
The way Critchlow tells it, shortly after Christmas, 1951, the Schlaflys were visited by a group of local Republicans at odds with the Party establishment.
That was everything I knew about clamming, but I told it night after night, trying to eke out a little more detail and drama each time.
Your body does what your mind tells it to, after all.
