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Replied Marcus Goodrich: "If that son of a gun comes up here, I'll pull an old Latin custom on him-bolt the windows and lock in the women. That's what he did to me in Mexico...
...direct wires to our printing plants in Chicago and Philadelphia, jumbling the transmission, mixing words and phrases, so that we have to send the copy over until it is intelligible. If that isn't irritating enough, nature sometimes steps in with a sterner warning-like the lightning bolt that struck the Philadelphia plant one Monday (deadline) night, knocking out the power supply. Type had to be reset in another plant, and teletypesetters worked round the clock. Chances are that your copy of TIME was late that week...
...nationalization of Britain's steel looked easy,, A few big firms employed most of the half million workers. But those firms had grown into huge vertical combines, in which it would be difficult to divorce ownership of vast iron-ore mines, limestone quarries, brickworks, diesel-engine works, nut-&-bolt plants. Just what parts of the steel industry did Wilmot propose to nationalize...
...Earth (Putnam; $3.50), the great man sometimes looks more like a ham actor in search of a role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers; as Reynard, whose affection at times was no match for his appetite...
Skimmed. In Jamestown, N.Y., a half-full milk bottle skidded off a window sill, plummeted six stories, crashed through a thin wooden panel, landed bolt upright, unbroken...