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Under the new plan, Dean Small explained, only 18 of these may be used before Christmas vacation, with a bonus of three permissions allowed during exam and reading periods. Girls who do not use the maximum of 18 permissions before the holidays, may add the ones left over, to the after-Christmas quota...
...stretched with mechanical devices, screws were driven into his thighs and thumbs. An SS man told him: "It has lasted a long time for the little admiral [Canaris]." Schlabrendorff asked the SS man if he wasn't sickened by his job. The shrugging reply: "We get a bonus of schnapps and blutwurst...
...take it." Dr. Brown, an intern at Southern Pacific General Hospital, credited his own success in medical school to pre-med training as a third baseman for the New York Yankees. "Big-league baseball conditioned me to hold up," said the "Golden Boy" who was paid a $50,000 bonus to sign with the Yanks in 1946. "I could look those profs in the eye and say: 'Brother, you can't scare me. I've been at the plate in Yankee Stadium with 80.000 fans screaming...
Most televiewers would have preferred fewer human actors and more Disney cartoons. What they saw was some polished foolery in bits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Song of the South, The Clock Cleaners and a chase sequence featuring Pluto and a vindictive bulldog. The bonus offering was a "thumbnail" preview of the Mad Tea Party scene from the new Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, scheduled for release late in 1951. Alice boasts the usual high level of Disney invention: Ed Wynn's voice is dubbed in for the Hatter, Jerry Colonna's strident accents...
Nobody was more surprised at this discovery than Happy himself. The main business of the club owners' meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week was supposed to be 1) abolition of the impractical "bonus rule," which had loaded some clubs with overpriced players,* and 2) the re-election of Commissioner Chandler to his $65,000-a-year job. Under the rules, Happy needed twelve votes out of a total 16, and with no candidate running against him he didn't see how he could lose...