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...roomate put down a book. "Aw, Vag, you know what'll happen...
...money." He gestured to a girl in a tight sweater who resignedly passed a small basket. The meeting started again as Trainor rasped: "Anybody's got a question, go ahead and ask." A tall student in the back questioned Trainor's facts concerning the formation of the Republican Party. "Aw hell," the speaker blurted. "My six-year-old kid asks more intelligent questions than that." A white-haired listener snickered to his wife: "Only because he expects intelligent answers...
...Died. Aw Boon Haw, 72, fabulously wealthy Hong Kong Chinese (donations to charity alone: $20 million) of a heart ailment; in Honolulu. Son of a Rangoon herb dealer, genial Philanthropist Haw parlayed a patent medicine named Tiger Balm into an Asian empire embracing hotels, breweries, factories and a string of newspapers; spent his money building more than 300 schools and hospitals (his announced goal: 1,100), promoting Chinese nationalism (he gave the Chungking government $4,000,000 to aid in the war against Japan) and ornamenting his showpiece estates in Hong Kong and Singapore...
...strong legs for dancing and a talent for witty sophistication. Since such gay blades are not always reliable, the mothers at the Berkeley were busy last week grading them according to a private code. Those who rated NST (not safe in taxis), FI (financially insecure), HD (heavy drinker) and AW (awful bore) were generally scratched...
Being practical types, they decide not to bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads...