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...South Bend, Ind. Kolesiak was on the roof tightening guy wires on his antenna when it toppled across a 27,000-volt power line. Immediately, great balls of fire bounced up & down on the roof with thunderous explosions, the plumbing threw off sparks, and pipes melted around the kitchen sink. Mrs. Kolesiak, peeling potatoes, found her spectacles flecked with molten metal, the television set burned out and one of the knobs blew off, the telephone went dead, a glove lying in the yard burst into flames, and the house was scorched in three places. Kolesiak was only slightly burned...
Although there is no need to sacrifice the interchangeability program, the Social Committee should reconsider its decision to run the Yale weekend on a communal basis, and, as soon as possible, turn the House Dance Committees loose to sink or swim in the old laissez-faire tradition...
Last week a British naval officer, grown garrulous over a pint of bitter in a Portsmouth pub, fired a salvo into Nessie that seemed likely to sink her for good. In 1918, he explained, the navy for testing purposes had laid some 300 horned mines in Loch Ness in strings of eight. When they surfaced they rolled over once or twice, giving the impression of a living organism; then they sank. "At a distance," said he, "they make a fine monster...
Grand Larceny. In Tulsa, under cover of darkness, thieves made off from Mrs. Estelle Franklin's house with her bathtub, gas stove, kitchen sink...
...work halfway through his plays. There are wonderful moments in Man and Superman and St. Joan, but comedy, or in the last case, tragedy, degenerate into the longueurs of debate; farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question and to cap or sink his own arguments, Shaw damps us because he talks his way back to the status quo, and leaves the impression that all he has had to say has only verbal importance. We are back where we started...