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...catfish in Midwestern rivers. The boys called themselves Boone's Scouts; they would crawl on their hands and knees if the pickets began shooting at each other over their heads. Once Dan was fishing in Bank Lick when a beech tree suddenly exploded in the quiet afternoon, split as if hit by lightning. It had stopped a solid ball from a monstrous Columbian...
...Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq) a temple-palace stuffed with nightmarish, colossal statuary carved by the Subaraeans, a people flourishing around 3500 B.C. Off & on, the digging continued for more than 18 years: his treasures were split between museums in Berlin and Aleppo...
...race horse little white pills to give it more pep. In baseball, not so. Last spring Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals began dosing his players with vitamin B1 pills. Last week, as the baseball season neared its eighth week, the hopped-up Redbirds were going lickety-split in the National League pennant race...
...great number of nominees, especially in the Sophomore class, resulted in a split of the voting, and except for Matters, the ballotting tended to be spread overly thin in the '43 voting...
Less than talented, my split bassoon...