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...Stuart's father provided him with a very small, light hammer made of wood; and Stuart found that by swinging it three times around his head and letting it crash against the handle of the faucet, he could start a thin stream of water flowing-enough to brush his teeth in, anyway...
...first 60 years of her life the charwoman so honored was Conchita Jurado, a born actress who never got a chance to act. One day in 1926 she forsook her scrubbing brush. She donned trousers, overcoat, slouch felt hat, a false-diamond stickpin and a false black mustache, and sortied into Mexican society. That day and until her death five years later, she was Don Carlos Balmori, an eccentric bachelor grandee with vast fortunes and castles in Spain...
...rnberg of 1934 faded from the screen and the lights of Nürnberg, 1945, went up. Colonel John Harlan Amen, who once helped Bill O'Dwyer clean up Brooklyn's Murder Inc., softly asked: "Do you remember? Hess tried to brush his hand against his eyes, but the handcuffs stopped him. Said he: "I must have been there ... I don't remember...
...half of every practice session to them). That fall, Army won its first major game (from Columbia) in three years. In 1943, Blaik scuttled his tried & true single-wing power stuff, adopted the quick-opening, tricky T. From power blocking (two-on-one) to man-to-man and downfield brush blocking was an awful reconversion headache. Even in its simplest form, the delicate T timing proved too much to master in a single season. But by last year Blaik had perfected his own compromise T, incorporating his old reverse to the weak side and other single-wing carryovers...
...industry asked the Army for more information, it got a brisk, firm "No!" One rejected applicant was W. G. Green, president of Well Surveys Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He wanted to consult "some technically qualified person" about using radioactive synthetics in the oil-well testing business. He got the brush...