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Meanwhile the Pennsylvania Legislature's investigating committee under State Senator Harry Shapiro started taking pot shots at the Board. First stir was caused by Board Member Albert Monroe Green field, Philadelphia realtor, who testified: "In view of the facts we have learned since, Snellenburg's was financially able to meet all obligations and didn't deserve the aid the Board tried to give them, and do not now deserve...
After losing the first two races by 17 min. 5 sec. and 18 min. 32 sec. respectively. Skipper Sopwith spent $150 to have Endeavour II hauled out of the water at Bristol. Maybe, he thought, a lobster pot had fouled her hull. Ranger's skipper did likewise. But no lobster pot was holding Endeavour back. Her sea-hardened paint was smooth, her hull sleek. Ranger's newer paint, however, was spotted, and her hull had to be daubed and cemented. Back at sea, Ranger proceeded to give Endeavour a further view of her stern, although Skipper Vanderbilt...
...page boy to a nobleman, because he fidgeted shyly when the nobleman's daughter Nina kissed him, he remembered her saying: "You stupid little page boy, if your eyes weren't so blue I should ask my father to kill you and cook your flesh in a pot and give it to the dogs . . . and God will punish you and you will burn in hell forever . . . so take that [kissing him fiercely...
Then there is Tomas, a big pot-bellied black fellow at headquarters, who is a sort of chief operator, or section chief. Officially Tomas belongs to the Avenida automatic exchange, quartered in the same building; but through seniority and an especially winning personality which he has, he really works his daylight shift in the public business office. Can't say how he spends his nights, but there's a night club next door. Tomas sometimes sits in the doorway to the Commercial office, facing the elevators; other times, he perches on the counter under the sign reading "Complaints...
...last week. But Sister Aimee exhibited little chagrin. With a substantial number of her Temple addicts still loyal, she put on a garment of white chiffon which could be swished out behind her like a pair of wings, and preached a stirring sermon about her Cause. Into a "defense pot'' Four Square Gospelers tossed money, jewelry, gold bridgework...