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...extensive medical tests. Surgical examination showed cancer of the lymphatic system-inoperable, incurable and spreading through his body. When he recovered consciousness, Mister Sam asked his doctors for the truth and got it. "This," Rayburn told a great-nephew, Robert Bartley Jr., "is the damnedest thing that ever got ahold...
...business world: "Stupid, stupid, stupid. Businessmen got ahold of the country in the twenties and look what happened. It's simple, if you're at the low end of the academic ladder in college, you go into business...
...Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat! One of dese solid gold cuff links of mine musta hooked on your watch chain dere...
...instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...
This is the last week of disbursing afloat and nobody is sure whether to shout for joy or join the Army. Our final exam will be laid out on the table for us on Saturday morning, and right now we are trying to think of some way to get ahold of an advance copy. Theories as to its nature are broached by almost everyone out of their subconscious desires for something suitable to their amount of acquired knowledge. Some of us are thinking of getting Eddie Rickenbacker in to pray...