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...Then he became a grocer's helper; all evening he would fill his little wooden wagon with goods, and at midnight he started his laborious deliveries to the scattered cottages on the mountainside; at the edge of town a small, bespectacled man would meet him and help him pull the heavy load. It was his father, who always tried to make things easier...
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a warhorse with energy to burn, nominated himself to pull the world out of its mess. He and Marshal Stalin could do it together, Monty felt sure. "Stalin has no time for politicians," he explained to an Australian politician. "He has faith only in generals." Cracked London's Sunday Pictorial: "Monty's slipping. We thought he could handle a little matter like that...
Some of these are naturally silted from the swamp above Mount Auburn cemetary; with others the ground glass bottom has been imported by generations of volunteer fireman's picnics. Their popularity is attested by statistics. Police pull far more bodies from the river's alluvial bed than from its verdant bush...
Meteorites can be ruled out, Mather continued, because the gravitational pull of the earth fashions them into a pencil shape. Also they have an entirely different trajectory from that attributed to the discs, and once inside the atmosphere they invariably collide with the earth...
...months ago Coward ran into a bright young radioman with a paying plan. Why not transcribe a Coward show, and send it to places where it would pull down handsomer rates than BBC can afford? The notion looked sound: for some months, effervescent, 26-year-old Harry Allen Towers has been cutting transcriptions featuring top British artists. The transcriptions have blank spots for commercials and are distributed to sponsors throughout the Empire...