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Like many an oldtime newsman, Leroy Simms, Birmingham correspondent of the Associated Press, has for years performed the tedious election night chore of tabulating vote returns. Last month, in Alabama's Democratic primary for attorney general. Reporter Simms sniffed a good story in his routine chore. And last week his careful tabulations paid off in a story as big as the election itself. After checking A.P.'s tabulations against the official count, a Birmingham grand jury indicted two men for vote fraud...
...Purple Grapes. What had seemed at first an amiable chore became a daily burden:"There was no fun in it until after the first five years." Now, the job done, she feels "like a tramp" without a job. Alone in the same apartment where she has lived since 1929, she wonders how her poetic restatement of the old La Fontaine truths will fare in the bookstores. Both the difficulties she faced and the quality of her frequent triumphs can be sensed in her freshening of the ancient favorite, The Fox and the Grapes...
Time for a Change. A timer, attached to an engine's electric system, that keeps track of the engine's running hours and ejects a printed reminder when it is time for an oil check or other maintenance chore was brought out by Carter & Galantin, Inc. Somewhat smaller than a brick, the "Servicator" is intended primarily for automobiles and trucks, but can be used on any engine. Price...
...called Rick, Sam or Harry before, and Billy now, the role hasn't changed; nor should it, since it is what he does best. But authors John Huston and Truman Capote have surrounded Bogart with an entirely new stock of characters, and taken from him the chore of hitting or shooting people--he is, after all getting...
...they can thrash it all out coolly and methodically, like a problem in one of Pierre's plays. But null soon takes pity on bored, blonde Xaviere and determines to awaken the girl's interest in life. Pierre feels irritated with null for having brought such a chore into their busy lives, and Xaviere. for her part, instantly detests Pierre. Only after a hundred pages of mutual sneers does Pierre decide that it is his duty to lend null a hand...