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...novels that were later made into movies?" Two of the misses were routine, the third was most embarrassing to the evening's guest star: "In the book he disappears off a boat, in the movie he is destroyed in a burning mill." The answer that nobody knew: "The monster in Frankenstein." The embarrassed guest : Boris Karloff, who won fame as the movie monster...
Even in the main corridor, from Yochow and Hankow, through Changsha and Hengyang, down which the enemy was funneling his attack groups and supplies, he was subject to harassment by Chinese guerrilla bands. But these attacks were pinpricks against the flank of an armored monster...
...first volcano they have been able to watch from birth. Last week, fresh from an expedition to it, Geologist Paul O. McGrew of the Chicago Natural History Museum made a scientific report on Paricutin. Said he, among other things: "This tremendous display was beyond all description. ... On leaving this monster I felt as though I were leaving a World Series baseball game in the sixth inning with the score tied...
Seventeen and one-half feet in total height and over ten feet long at the base, the Oriental monster weighs more than 20 tons. When accepted by the University eight years ago it was placed first on a temporary scaffolding in the Yard, so that the authorities could be certain that its appearance would be satisfactory in contrast to the neighboring buildings...
There was much argument as to the monster's antecedents. Most logical explanation was one adapted from the Idaho Sunday Statesman: Paul Bunyan, who used to fish the Snake River regularly, tied the shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim...