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Another Dogpatch institution, the Skonk Works, is almost as lethal-scores have been done in by the fumes of the concentrated skonk oil which is brewed and barreled by its proprietor, Big Barnsmell, and his "outside man," Barney Barnsmell. Of the devices which are employed to make life horrible for Capp's characters, these are simply the more rudimentary...
...First in the major leagues since Sept. 9, 1948, when the Dodgers' Rex Barney shut out the Giants at the Polo Grounds...
That morning, burly Barney Doyle went to early Mass, hurried through breakfast and left the house at 8:30-to get a good seat for the doubleheader between the Giants and the Dodgers. Doyle, 53, a ship's carpenter, was a faithful Giant fan; whenever he could, he went to watch his favorites. He took along a friend's son, freckled Otto Flaig...
...year-old Robert Peebles had climbed onto the roof of his dirty yellow apartment house, raised his .45 pistol and fired it, for the fun of it, into the air. His bullet looped swiftly over the Polo Grounds, sped toward Seat 3, Row C, Section 42. Just as Barney Doyle, his score card in hand, turned to speak to young Otto Flaig, the bullet smashed into Doyle's left temple, sank into his brain and stayed there. Doyle, suddenly bleeding, slumped forward...
...Walker know where the Devil had trapped him. Wrote the Rev. Roy I. Bohanan of New London, Conn.: "Print more . . . Let's have a story on the Bartenders' Christian Fellowship, or the revelation of a" Prostitutes' Christian Association . . . but not into Christian homes." Sighed Kenneth D. Barney of Scott City, Kans.: "The wishy-washy, lukewarm professed believers who insist movies are not wrong for Christians will now have a new argument." Henry Pucek of St. Louis, Mo. pointed to a recent magazine picture of Jane Russell in an "unChristian pose," and asked: "Is this the priesthood which...