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...deadly mushrooms . . . attracted bees and wasps, letting them alight on her hands and scratching their backs. 'They like that,' " she said. "Like a bacchante after libations," she would stumble along, "nose and . . . forehead covered with yellow pollen, her hair in disorder and full of twigs, a bump here and a scratch there...
...professed amazement over the incident: "I don't have an enemy in the world." Frankie's best guess on whodunit: "I got some dry holes - supposed to be oil wells-in Wise County, Texas. Maybe some big oil company thinks those wells have oil and tried to bump...
Confused While Romping. "O.K., cast," bellowed the stage manager. "Positions, please, for the waltz." Dancers scurried into place under the warm floodlights. Choreographer Jonathan Lucas scampered up a ladder and called: "Pretty faces now; pretty figures, too. Do not bump the Queen, do not bump the Prince and, above all, do NOT bump Cinderella." As Cinderella and her Prince, played by Jon Cypher, a rangy (6 ft. 2 in.) young (25) newcomer from Brooklyn, moved through the dancers, Director Nelson followed closely, again imitating a camera. It was a confused yet sightly romp...
...Bump Elliott, backfield coach at Iowa and one of those known to have been interviewed said "I was not offered the position. We just had a very informal chat, a get acquainted meeting. Bolles generally outlined the situation at Harvard, and we exchanged ideas on football...
...Knowing that many cases of apparent blindness are relieved by a shock, Griffin explained: "There was no bump, no jar. Nothing had happened. Suddenly everything looked like red sand in front of my eyes." By the time a doctor arrived, Griffin could make out the color of his blue suit and read a prescription blank. Near shock from the experience, Griffin was put on heavy doses of sedatives, given "cylinder glasses" to help pull his eye muscles back to useful strength. His vision. Griffin estimated, was about...