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When a final fix by the astronomers placed the center in Farmer Carl Daymen Snider's cornfield, well-wishers came from all directions. Snider, a lean, tanned 33-year-old son of the soil, took it calmly: "I ain't overly worked up about it." said he. When he was asked if his family would pose before a camera, he said: "The woman may take the shotgun...
...door of the funeral home to the sidewalk, some fading pink flowers in the yard. "They're dying out," said Mama. "But they're still kinda nice for Jimmy." Mama held off the burial for eight days, but finally gave in this week. Said she: "I ain't in no hurry to rush him into the ground. I kept him out just as long as they...
...starred with him in Jumbo and then turned melancholy when the show closed. "Rosie! Rosie! It's Nosey!" said Durante. Rosie trumpeted and lay down on all fours, as she had been taught to do in Jumbo. Jimmy tried to wrap his arms around her. "Rosie ain't forgot me," he cried, tears in his voice. "Look! She still loves...
...trouble with such articles and others like it is the support they lend to a belief that scientists are beating a retreat to some more or less anthropomorphic god, Catholic, Protestant, Hebrew, etc., and it just ain...
...gunner on the Mississippi told him: "Chaplain, back in Pearl, I had a hard time behavin'. Up here with them Jap subs somewhere around, it ain't no trouble at all. I'm afraid I'll grow wings." Chaplain Sheehy replied: "We have been 62 days at sea, and we are now drawing on the ship's reserve supplies. Each man has a reserve tank of virtue in him-and the fact of danger may make him tap it. Don't rely upon it for long. It soon runs dry . . . -"There is a spark...