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...jumper," whose "whole attitude [was] one of vague indecision and innate bewilderment." Maw "was heavy and cumbersome with un attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno). To Reno, their first born, Paw & Maw proudly referred...
...ain't got Georgy blood...
...year-old Yankee Clipper left in his wake the broken fragments of one of baseball's immortal records. Di Maggio had just hit safely in his 45th successive game, bettering the fabulous string of 44 spun by wondrous Wee Willie Keeler (who "hit 'em where they ain't") 44 years...
...milestones were passed in Joe Louis' life last week. Not only did his wife file suit for divorce, but he admitted the truth of rumors that he is likely to retire at the end of this year. "I ain't near the fighter I use to be," he told a newshawk after a round of golf at Detroit's Rackham golf course. "I guess I'se slipped pretty far. Won't know how far until my next fight with Lou Nova in September. If I find then I'se slipped...
...Each new member," says Authoress Strauss thriftily, "means another penny a week to be collected on Sunday mornings." But the canvassing is "arduous and disappointing work." When one "innocent canvasser" asked "a pregnant Cockney woman," "Are you for Labor?" she turned on him "scornfully," said: "This ain't no bloody mosquito bite...