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Willie rubbed his fat chin, said nothing...
...General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
Small, shy, stooped like a tired schoolmaster, Glubb Bey (his Arab title) graduated first in his class from Woolwich Royal Military Academy. Son of a major general, he knew his war business, went to France in World War I as a sapper. There he received a chin wound which later inspired Arabs to nickname him Abu Huneik (Man with the Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to Mesopotamia; he has remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house...
...Frank Cohen is no production man, but he knows how to get men who are. He had originally staffed his little plant on the Schuylkill by going direct to various "40-Plus Clubs," groups of chin-up engineers and mechanics who thus advertised the reason they were out of work. In expanding for the British order, Cohen next hired instructors from the Delehanty Institute to train the raw labor he picked up. When he opened the West Pittston Iron Works (near Wilkes-Barre) to machine steel plates, 343 of the 350 men hired were from the coal mines. They went...
Playing against South Carolina three weeks ago, Sinkwich had his jaw broken on one side, cracked on the other. With his jaws wired, his chin in a sling and his breathing so impaired that he required trips to the sidelines for whiffs of oxygen, Sinkwich played for three quarters of last fortnight's game against Mississippi, threw a pass that tied the score, 14-to-14. Last week, against Columbia, Sinkwich played for nearly 60 minutes, scored the touchdown that licked the Lions, 7-to-3. "He can do everything but bite into a steak," moaned Columbia...