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...version would please those who want accurate scholarship, phrased so that it would read well aloud. It would disappoint those who expected debate. Said a collaborator: "Out of the thousands of variant readings in the manuscripts, none has turned up thus far that requires a revision of Christian doctrine...
...delaying action began as soon as the Senate convened the next day. Louisiana's paunchy John H. Overton announced that he had noted "a number of errors" in the Congressional Journal, asked that it be read aloud. As soon as the clerks began to drone he began to interrupt-commas and semicolons, he believed, had been improperly used. Genially, wordily, he then discussed old Southern religion and kindred matters. He was still at it when the Senate recessed for the week...
Lincoln Ellsworth, 65, perennial polar explorer, was off again early in the first year of peace-perhaps the first robin of an old-fashioned explorers' spring. (Admiral Byrd had already begun to yearn aloud for the South Pole.) Explorer Ellsworth headed for the Rift valley volcanic areas in East Africa; after that, said he, would come the Antarctic again. "I just cannot keep away...
...meal a day. To cook it, one woman held a Primus stove down on the deck, a second held a pan to the flame. Often the stove bounced and rolled; food and fuel spilled, threatening the boat with fire. Day after day the shivering women read aloud to quiet their shivering children; during the worst of the storms the men on deck sang to reassure them. Finally a U.S. destroyer sighted the dingy sailboat, pulled alongside. Her crew passed down food, cigarets, fuel. The Erma was 100 miles off Norfolk...
...five U.S. generals of the trial commission filed to their places. Major General R. B. Reynolds immediately began to read aloud. He turned a page, another, two more. Yamashita licked his lips, blinked, moved uneasily. Finally Reynolds paused. "The accused," he directed, "will take his position before the commission...