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Snap, Crackle, Pop! In Granite, Colo., Bill Lane, unable to start his frigid truck, built a fire under it, ignited the garage, exploded an oil barrel, blew the roof off the garage, injured a friend, splattered the west side of Granite with burning oil, brought out the Leadville Fire Department, burned his house down...
Most of Punch's cartoons during World War II have dealt with wartime nuisances on the home front. In the Almanack, the liquor shortage is epitomized by a gloomy Saint Bernard dog whose barrel bears the sign, "No Whisky." The endless rationing and shortages inspired a cartoon of a fish vendor offering a huge fresh sea serpent for sale...
Lock, Stock & Barrel has considerable anecdotal value. It also has an interesting point: collecting is largely responsible for man's knowledge of himself-through the foundation of libraries and of great artistic and scientific museums...
...those heads, he claims, has prevented him from collecting anything himself-except facts about collectors. For the past seven years Douglas Rigby and his wife Elizabeth have been collecting just such facts. The result is a 517-page book, chock-full of photographs and line drawings: Lock, Stock & Barrel (Lippincott; $5), the first such history ever compiled...
...reluctant. They slogged through the mud for three days. Karski could not go on, though the border of Hungary was only 15 miles away. They spent the night in a village. Karski was awakened by a gun butt mashed against his skull. He dropped his undeveloped microfilm into a barrel of water...