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Eugene Rudier knows that he is the last of the great master casters and he fears that the old skills will die with him. "They will no longer know how to cast a grande piece in its entirety," he said sadly. "They will cast arms, heads and legs and patch them together." His workers agree. "When the chef de cuisine dies," said one, "the restaurant will go on serving soup, but it won't be exactly the same soup any more...
...small pamphlet printed in Philadolphia and called "Poor Richard's Almanac". In the 1756 issue, Franklin wrote. "When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them for another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is better and more creditable than a write on your back and no money to take it off." This was greeted with stony disapproval by the struggling cloak-and-suit industry of the colonies...
Presidential Press Secretary Joe, Short, besieged later for a clarification, did his best to patch matters up again: "It was a purely academic and hypothetical question and there is no amplification or comment on it." Truman, himself, did not elaborate. But next day, while telling 100 visiting Protestant editors that his press conference had produced questions ranging from "Genesis to Revelations," he grinned and said: "I don't know whether I gave them the right answers...
Blazing Floods. At 400 feet, however, just as the C46 was about to make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...
...There are always plenty of people getting married for the first time." Nelson has had 17 policemen married on his show (he got one speeding ticket fixed as a result), and four children have been named after him. He constantly hears from Bride & Groom graduates who want him to patch up a quarrel, find them a job or lend them some money. He is heartened by a recent survey of 1,100 Bride & Groom couples which shows that only twelve have been separated or divorced since the program began, that the majority claim to have no pressing problems, and that...