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...alleged crime, people had been whispering that he was having an affair with his wife's 17-year-old sister Nancy, who lived with them. This much was clear: one night while the Randolphs and Nancy were visiting relatives, Nancy roused the household with "the unmistakable animal scream of a woman in labor." She swore she was only suffering from colic; but a week later, after the Randolphs had gone back home to their own plantation, the body of a newborn baby was found in the woodpile...
...hero's welcome. He was not dazzled. "When I was racing," he said last week, "I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow-hero to zero, I sometimes...
...then desperately tried to make amends by patching it messily with another banana. In the radio and TV gagwriters' vocabulary describing audience reactions to gags, a laugh is the lowest thing on the scale. Then comes the howl. After that they yell, and finally, on rare occasions, they scream. During Young's banana routine, there was no doubt that the studio audience screamed...
...children by his first wife), Young works hard and keeps regular business hours. He says he likes TV and is not worrying too much about the future. For one thing, he can play the bagpipes. If things get too tough, he figures that bagpipes are always good for a scream...
...Cleveland tried it a few years back. Hoodlumism has been increasing ever since, until last year over 2,000 robberies, burglaries, street attacks, and rapes were reported. Inventors brought out whistles and small sirens which women could carry in their handbags. Fenn College offered a course in how to scream...