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...looks like a thoroughbred at all. He has heavy jowls, the neck of a Percheron and the broad chest of a Turkish wrestler. He clops solidly up to the starting gate as if he were there only to pull it into position. Indeed, Silky is a horse out of Bunyan by Runyon...
...young team with no less than 14 sophomores on their roster. One of the few seniors on the team is Al Pitts, B.C.'s goalie, who is one of the best in this area. Tom Cadiganand Miles Cassady make a strong pair of starting defensemen while Dick Kane, Ned Bunyan, and Bill Cusack should make up the Terriers' first line...
Your Feb. 25 comment on the Middle East, "Even the most loyal supporters of the U.N. have to swallow hard at sanctimonious lectures on morality being delivered by agents of tyrannies," reminds me of the following line from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: "Saint abroad, and a devil at home...
...Ivar Kreuger was both idol and symbol-not, as most men then thought, a Paul Bunyan of finance, but a gross glandular case of surpassing greed. Today, only one tiny match flare from Kreuger's mighty kingdom remains on the financial pages of U.S. newspapers. In mingled hope and irony, Kreuger & Toll 5% debenture bonds, with a $1,000 face value, sell on the N.Y. Stock Exchange for about $40. Before the bond's name appears the tiny letter "q," signifying "in bankruptcy...
...Harding insists that everything Bunyan wrote is grist for the analyst, and especially his slips of the pen. since they are not accidents, but the certain results of subconscious desires. Example: Bunyan wrote of the "straight and narrow" path (instead of the Biblical spelling, strait). This means, says Analyst Harding, that Bunyan was subconsciously rebellious against the strait and narrow path of Puritanism, perhaps even the very practice of Christianity itself...