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...Macauley's Parlor A for his luggage-allowing many "sure things" to pass by in order to capture the big game. I got my man and many cumbersome pieces of luggage which I maneuvered to his waiting Twin-Six. Then I carelessly marred the finish with a small scratch from his golf bag. Said Packard's Macauley, "Boy put those bags down and get out of here!"-voice slightly raised, temper definitely lost. JOHN A. WOOD...
...bureaucracy, Chief Darling soon discovered, was slower than wading through a duck marsh. When he set out to restore swamps he would find some other government agency out to drain them. When he picked some woodsy river side for a game refuge, another agency would be planning to scratch irrigation ditches through...
Coach Joe Stubbs says that everyone will start from scratch this year and, with almost a month to go between the first practice next Tuesday and the opener against Tech on December 11, entirely new forward wall combinations are likely to be formed. Because there will be no official Jayvee team again this year, Coach Stubbs will keep his eye on a large Varsity squad...
...lowest. A few of the more picturesque names of the suits are Ghulam, Slave; Chang, Harp; and Burart, Royal Diploma. The name of the pack is Gunja-Kha, which means "Relieving Scalp." They were invented to keep the hands of the king busy so that he would not scratch his head, or, as another version of the tale has it, so that he would not pull hairs out of his beard...
...night things cool off and quiet down. The stars come out. . . . Then-if ever-a stray thought is likely to come swirling out of the darkness like a bat and light on you. . . . I wish I could write books that live, like Dickens or Thackeray. . . . All I do is scratch down a few evanescent thoughts that are born in the night, and hardly live...