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...skinniness, and "Talking Tom," a tribute to his wagging tongue. His college days were briefly interrupted when he volunteered for the Spanish-American War; but his regiment saw no action. Settling down to law practice in Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon he ran for the legislature. After two terms he went back to the law again for twelve years, with a four-year stretch as prosecuting attorney of Falls County sandwiched in. Texas had frequent killings in those days and Tom Connally, increasingly adept in courtroom debate and cross examination...
Then follows a brisk program of wining, dining, entertainment and patriotic speechmaking, after which the men are whisked off to health resorts, accompanied by the entertainment corps...
...plastic hospital tray or a course in dentistry, statistics on war dogs, report of an epidemic from ham, a note on horses' eyes). It goes on to special articles on standard procedures (e.g., a series on malaria) and original articles from army doctors everywhere. The brisk little Bulletin sells for $2 a year...
Marauder pilots swept in day after day, returned with astonishingly low losses. The operation was all so brisk, business like and efficient that it was hard to remember that the sleek, cigar-bodied B-26 had come close to being washed up as an unruly failure, not many months...
...Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a skyrocketing demand for its Arabic edition...