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...Flying Angels took wing one bright summer's day in 1835 when a young vacationing Anglican minister named John Ashley stood with his son looking out over the Bristol Channel. The little boy pointed to two lonely islands, Steep Holme and Flat Holme, lying far out in the haze. "How can those people go to church, Father?" he asked...
...mention in your May 7 "Stop the Presses" that Jimmy Parks and I stopped occasionally en route to Houston to fortify ourselves with beer-"finally, in a beer-blurred haze of headlines and bylines, Cook rapped on the door at the Houston address." I feel that you should know that iced tea and a vanilla malted milkshake were the only drinks I consumed that day or evening. I was with Parks from 5:15 p.m. Wednesday until we conferred with the Houston police chief Thursday morning, and the only drinks he had during that time were a glass of tomato...
There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing...
...thinking," Cook later recalled, "if I could go over to Houston and clean up the case and bring the man and the money back to San Antonio and dump it all in the lap of the police chief, I would be famous." Finally, in a beer-blurred haze of headlines and bylines, Cook rapped on the door at the Houston address...
Thin shadow's slanted across the late afternoon, streaking the slate-grey waters of the Severn. On the Annapolis shore, spectators took a long second look at the river. Was the haze-dimmed sun playing tricks, or was that an extra shell rowing out to the starting line for the annual Navy-Princeton varsity crew race? To sharp eyes, five interlocked circles, the Olympic insigne. stenciled on the shell's bow. explained the interloper's presence. The "Admirals." Navy's 1952 champions, were back in competition, tuning up to try for a second Olympic title...