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Bill Wrigley was no slave to his desk. Once when he was asked to be in his office to sign an important contract, he cried, "The hell with it, the Giants are in town," hurried off to the ball park. He seldom missed a game. For several months of every year he went to Catalina Island, 12 mi. off the coast of California, which he had bought in 1919 for $2,000,000, and of which he had made a profitable business enterprise as well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix...
...like the towers, red and green. The bells, too, are not wholly obnoxious, But will someone who knows please explain to a bewildered electorate, WHAT THE HELL? (Name withheld by request...
...Decent conduct" cried the Red Moralist, "has nothing to do with Hell or Heaven! Instead of enforcing decent con-duct by threats of a non-existent Hell or by promises of a non-existent Heaven we must bring up our new generations to con-duct themselves decently because a comrade's own usefulness and the well-being of the nation require...
Then a suicide has nothing to fear? He cannot be kept out of Heaven or even sent to Hell for taking his own life? These questions, which trouble few U. S. youths, trouble not a few Russians. Last week Godless Yaroslavsky gave what can fairly be considered the official Soviet answer: "Suicide is not permissible! As a solution of life's problems it is an act of bourgeois cowardice. Being an act of hopelessness, suicide should have no place in the Soviet Union...
...They frequently have twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average Penguin has the mind of an eight-year-old child but he gets his pic ture in the Sunday papers...