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Herbert has a facial tic, especially when, as usual, he is worried. His eyes blink of themselves. On a park bench or in a railway train he is often startled, in the middle of agonized reflection about the insecurity of everything in the world, by the rising up of some furious young woman to call a policeman or pull the communication cord. And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady. The situation, as he expected from the beginning, then becomes hopeless. The lady has hysterics, and Herbert can only...
...Pittsburgh diocese, Bishop Pardue has started a new training program for ministers that would make many an old-line prelate blink. Next summer, between, their graduation from college and admission to seminary, prospective ministers will work in a steel mill or coal mine. By arrangement with Pardue's good friend and parishioner, Ben Moreell, president of Jones & Laughlin, parsons-to-be will learn their way around the blast furnaces and Bessemers as ordinary laborers. As many as possible will live in the homes of foremen and mill hands...
...Black Road is a reminder th.it prodigal sons rarely change their spots. It takes Pa Ederly a minute to recognize the jazzy-looking lad who has walked into his general store. Then his eyes blink back the tears. "Well, I-I see you've grown some. But then, you do grow some between 15 and 23." Before the day is out, Prodigal Son Davie is acting like a new broom, ordering the store front painted bright red, plate glass for the big window, the latest finery for his mother...
...when Davie starts raving about the roadside diner he can buy for $300, and spouting the combination and cash contents of the rickety old safe, Pa Eder-ly's eyes blink without tears. Pretending a fear of robbers, Pa and the family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...
...physical Yale is plunked incongruously down in the heart of a prosaic, overgrown town-a neo-Gothic citadel besieged by a grid of Main Streets. Neon signs blink into its leaded windows; drugstores, shoe stores and tailor shops challenge its ivy-covered walls. The worlds of Samuel and Howard Johnson are but a step apart...