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From now on, there was to be Dignity in radio humor. To insure it, gags would be censored as never before (see below). Nevertheless, radio would continue to devote more time to a bore and a nuisance-the audience-participation show-than to any other single item...
...Holt bore down at this point and registered three of his ten strikeouts to end the last Bunny threat of the day. His mates went on the win in the eighth, when Bill Richardson's towering double to left field scored the deciding run from second base...
Characteristically, he made the most of his time by boning up on world history and becoming the camp champion at Chinese checkers, ice skating, long distance walking, woodcutting. He bore the federal government no rancor. Said he: "I am enraged." But he added: "I am coolly enraged." He knew he still had the heart of the people...
...Koussevitzky, who is always enthusiastic about new things in rehearsals, glowed that it was classic in form and sometimes "very near to Haydn." The Boston Symphony conductor turned often to his protege, Leonard Bernstein, to remark "Isn't it beautiful?" Bernstein thought it a bore...
Mary sent this clerkly lover packing, married Jesse Vineyard, also a lawyer, and bore five children. It was not until after Lincoln's death, in pungent letters to W. H. Herndon, an early Lincoln biographer, that she told why she had refused Lincoln. Excerpts: "Really you catechise me in true lawyer style. . . . From his own showing, you perceive that his heart and hand were at my disposal; and I suppose that my feelings were not sufficiently enlisted to have the matter consummated. . . . I thought Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the chain of woman...