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...report that the calamity is world wide. Moscow cuts itself off from the world; there are riots in Paris and a wave of vice in Rome; London pleads with its populace to remain calm while a Royal Commission continues its investigation. And while the world sits on the brink of disaster, Mr. Adam, of Tarrytown, N. Y., gives birth to a normal baby girl and Mr. Adam goes to Washington as the greatest hero since Lindbergh. Such is the new moved by journalist Frank, who deftly beams a spotlight on the tightrope that the ordinary Joe and wife must tread...
Molotov's fellow delegates could hardly get used to his frequent smiles and handshakes, suspected that at times he even hovered on the brink of a backslap. Cracked he: "This is my first vacation since the Revolution." Oscar Englund, a waiter at the Waldorf, found Molotov gracious enough to give an autograph-though Englund later lost his job for his audacity. "So what?" said he. "That's history, what...
Tallyho! Near Bristol, England, a fox led twelve headlong hounds to a cliff's edge, ducked safely into a hole as the dogs plunged over the brink...
News wires soon burned with the flash that a giant rockfall had plunged from the brink of the American Falls. Buffalo hastily reported that the shock had registered on the seismograph of Canisius College. An engineer of the Niagara park commission estimated the break to be 125 feet across and 30 feet deep, added that his view had been partly obscured by the mists. The reliable Associated Press released an aerial photo carefully marking the "Break of September 20, 1946." Said a Page One headline in the sober New York Times: AMERICAN FALLS NOW A HORSESHOE...
...sort of Ross-ty at this sort of of thing," muttered the Sage of the Age, as he Felt for his typewriter. "The Rodis narrow and I'm on the Brink of becoming Mroz about Boston...