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...Professor Ernest Rudge and the pudding stones was of more than ordinary interest to me. Two years ago, my wife and I visited Grime's Graves at Weeting in Norfolk and were taken by the British Ministry of Works' custodian, by means of a cat ladder, to the bottom of one of the pits. This pit, one of more than 300, is approximately 30 feet deep, and at the bottom, galleries radiate in all directions. These galleries, mined by Neolithic man in his search for flints, are only a few feet high and can be entered only...
...enthusiasm and his common touch as the signs of a willing political amateur. But genial, hard-plugging Soapy traveled the state like no liquor commissioner in history, soon turned a host of liquor dealers into personal friends, and turned his job into a first step on the Michigan political ladder. Kim Sigler's successor as governor: Soapy Williams...
Dress Rehearsal. In Bristol, Pa., Fire Chief Clifford Hagerman was inspecting a fire box when he accidentally set off an alarm, was on hand, red-faced, when 20 firemen in three pumpers and one ladder truck screamed to the scene...
...over Michigan, dailies have been publishing pictures of unusually tall sunflowers. Last week the Saginaw News ran a "sunflower to end all sunflowers": 75 feet high, being watered by a hook & ladder fire truck (see cut). "Firemen," said the News caption, "were called out when observers thought frankly they were seeing a stalled flying saucer." But the dozing Detroit A.P. bureau didn't read the fine print, missed the gag and sent out the picture over its wirephoto circuits as an authentic shot. Later, red-faced A.P. flashed its clients: "A kill is mandatory. Make certain the picture...
...California's shapely Mrs. Patricia McCormick, already winner of the women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...