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...Weber, 72, and Lew ("Meyer") Fields, 73, promptly went into their 63-year-old act at Grand Central Terminal: Meyer cuffed Mike, shook him like an apple tree. When they paused for breath, Weber growled: "All people ever wanted to see us for is to watch Lew knock the hell out of me." Mourned
...letter instructing his aides how to act while on duty, Hollister says, "If you see any other marshals ask them what the hell this is all about, and they won't know either...
...specially trained to stand the pressures of such performance. They carry only one 1,100-lb. or two 500-lb. bombs. These they aim by pointing the plane's nose at the target during its screaming dive. Theory is that 100 such bombs so aimed by 100 such hell-divers could not fail to blast the toughest target...
...sort of Oriental Decameron, Chin P'ing Mei tells the story of a rich young rakehell named Hsi Men, of whom it was said that "unless they are concubines of the Prince of Hell himself, they belong to the harem of wealthy Hsi Men." Fretful because he is not ten men, something of a sadist (though a pleasant fellow at times), Hsi is figuratively said to enjoy "spending his nights among blossoms and willows." The details are put much more plainly...
Awakener. After two centuries Jonathan Edwards is chiefly remembered as the Calvinist preacher whose accounts of Hell scared New Englanders silly. Biographer Winslow revives his far more important distinction as a brilliant example of the New England mind. A diehard doctrinaire, Edwards originated a revivalist mass-technique and a revolutionary, individualistic concept of religion, thus unconsciously promoted a religious movement known as the Great Awakening. The movement swept away the old theocratic Calvinist dogmas of the Mathers, precipitated the separation of Church and State, paved the way for Emerson's transcendentalism...