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...makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls so big that you could a-throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when I was eight, I reckon. Summers...
...arrived in Nome on Aug. 25, found a two-room office in the Wallace Hotel's new frame building on Front Street at $1,380 a year. The rooms were "all painted up white and very classy." The windows looked out on the Bering Sea. Shortly the sea surged up and swept away the drugstore next door, almost removed the dentist's office...
...Oliver Harriman, onetime society leader in Manhattan, living now in a two-room hotel apartment, brought out a 72-chapter, 646-page guide to good manners. Mrs. Oliver Harriman's Book of Etiquette (Greenberg; $3) starts at the start ("Good manners begin in the cradle"), goes right to the finish ("Care should be taken in selecting a reliable funeral director"). Her observations are perceptive and practical. The book is infinitely detailed, as if Mrs. Harriman, a woman of firm grip and general sensibility, had found over the years that most Americans are fuzzy-minded, bewildered, perhaps even dopey...
Grays Hall and the Yard may have booked a little decrepit after the manicured grounds of Indiana State, Smith, and Vassar. Individual bathrooms, two-room suites, and unrestricted hours made up for that, however. No matter how long you had to flick lights for a Yard Cop, it was better than facing an irate house mother at 3 o'clock in the morning...
Whether in his office or in his two-room air-conditioned suite at the Manila Hotel (where he hangs his high-pressure cap in the window to let his boys know he's at home), Tommy Hart can see the crescent bay where most of his fleet now rides at anchor. In the distance he can see the radio towers of the Cavite naval base and ahead, if the day is clear, the looming bulk of Corregidor, the Gibraltar that guards Manila. Close by he can see the merchantmen at Manila's big pier 7 busily unloading...