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J. Donald Adams is usually a mild-mannered and stolid citizen. But the more he looked at a paragraph of literary doubletalk in a current poetry magazine, the more it "acted as bellows to my smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his...
Soon local Quakers sensed something strange in the air-almost as if they heard an organ playing. They also felt somehow "that Friend Birdwell wasn't standing as squarely in the light as he'd done at one time." So one night the Ministry and Oversight Committee paid...
"I guess my bellows are overstretched from holding those long ones," he said.
Infantry, field artillery and aircraft ammunition was likewise carefully guarded by Ordnance to keep it clean. When the attack came, planes at Bellows Field had no .30-cal. machine-gun bullets.
What made Grimm's Cubs run was not a roster-load of stars, but a compact team of workers, and a manager who knew how to get them to play together. Ham-fisted Manager Charlie ("The Banjo") Grimm looks like a man having fun. Standing in his third-base...