41.   For the next six years, he rubbed shoulders with European royalty as he wrote about the exiled governments in the British capital.

42.   He became well known as a writer on musical subjects and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ravel, Debussy, Florent Schmitt and Satie.

43.   Having the dethroned junk bond king rub shoulders with Nobel laureates was not all that incongruous.

44.   He had been on his way to get a lawn mower fixed, he recalled, as a friend rubbed his shoulders when he heard about the blast.

45.   He hovers in a kind of critical purgatory, rubbing ethereal shoulders with the likes of Jack London, exiled from canonical heaven.

46.   He rubs shoulders with leading researchers on grand rounds.

47.   He donated to charities, invested in a fleet of million-dollar aircraft and rubbed shoulders with politicians.

48.   He stroked their hair, took their hands, kissed them on the cheek, complimented their jewelry, and rubbed their shoulders.

49.   He served briefly in the Georgia Legislature, where he rubbed shoulders with Jimmy Carter and conferred with John F. Kennedy.

50.   He worked as a volunteer, got to rub shoulders with some of the stars of the convention and came away with a nifty T-shirt.