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What Was That? Near St. Charles, Ill., while Farmer Maurice Regole's silo exploded and collapsed the barn against the feed shed, which in turn knocked the windmill over the implement shed, Farmer Regole peacefully slept on, reported to neighbors next day that he had heard "a slight noise...
...about two minutes the place begins to put on a very good imitation of purgatory, for the sun is beating down mercilessly on a tin roof over your head, and the loft is one big black Stifling oven. I wish I had thought a little about that cow barn, back in the days when I was committing so many sins, in the world. It might have given me pause...
...pull up its own socks, Colgate promptly invited an M.D. to give two public lectures, revised its required natural sciences course to put more emphasis on physiology of sex. But professors were inclined to agree with Walker, who said: "Sex education on the college level is closing the barn after the horse has run away . . . The job should be started in the grammar schools or earlier...
...help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author Maxwell, that "the apple had gone bad a long time ago, and slugs had eaten the rose, that the hay had mildewed in the barn, and the last hope of fair dealing was lost in third-grade arithmetic...
...ball-playing when he concluded that he could never hit .300. He knew how to bat the drums and sing a little-"I was what you call a dramatic tenor, singing The Road to Mandalay and stuff like that." After writing songs and "running material" fof WLS' National Barn Dance, he formed his own band. His first job: playing for Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...