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...breathe. The things we do. The things we say. Our books. Our papers. Our theater. Our movies. Our radio and television. The way we behave. The interests we have. The values we fix...
Then he heard about other foreign colleges and schools that needed help. "Never had much of a chance to read books myself," he would say, "and I appreciate how much they mean to people who are in the same fix." In his spare time, he begged books wherever he could-duplicates from libraries, old books from professors; he bought discarded textbooks from the state for a dollar...
Were gamblers really trying to fix big-time golf as they had fixed big-time basketball? Next day, with a mild case of jitters, Mangrum played under an armed police escort, but blasted a 2-under-par 70 to take $2,250 first prize money (and to become the year's top money winner with $18,948.83). Later, he told newsmen it was not quite a new experience: two years ago, a man he knew (since "sent up the river for dope peddling or something") offered him a share "in cutting up $7,000" if he would finish...
...Waldy" for Baldwin). Each day, Baudouin would ride to school on his bicycle, followed closely by a tutor on another. He deeply resented the close supervision; one day when the tutor wasn't looking, he let the air out of his tires. "Here," he told the tutor, "you fix this; I'll hold your bike." The tutor complied, and watched open-mouthed as the Belgian prince rode off-alone and, for once, happy...
...confused with Fix Bayonets, 1926's bestselling collection of World War I sketches and short stories by the late Colonel John W. Thomason Jr., U.S.M.C...