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Sitting beside Pilot Mulqueeny, Outfielder Koenecke soon became rambunctious. He began nudging Mulqueeny, grabbing the controls, locking his arm about the startled pilot's neck. Suddenly Koenecke leaped at Parachuter Davis. sank his teeth through several layers of cloth into the smaller man's elbow, bore him to the floor, tore at his clothes, bit into his flesh again & again...
...embalmed body of Enrico Caruso, who died in 1921, lies in a mausoleum near Naples in a glass-covered casket wrapped in a U. S. flag and a green billiard cloth. Friends (including Tenor Tito Schipa) change the clothing every three years. Visitors report a steady discoloration of the tenor's face...
...nature, in Genesis 38. Not being allowed to send obscene matters through the mails in this empire of holy brethren, I can only cite you the passages involved in Holy Writ, trusting that you have a Bible at hand which has not been censored by any members of the cloth...
...Banning Cocq's Company of Amsterdam Musketeers, long miscalled The Night Watch because soot in the Harquebusiers' clubroom had murked the canvas; Dr. Deyman's Anatomy Lesson, rated far higher than the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp painted 24 years earlier; and The Syndics of the Cloth Hall...
...helium roared out. An Army sergeant on the gondola understood the crisis first, frantically yelled, "Run! Run! She's busted!" Before any of the 20 men under the bag could do so, they were flattened by nearly three acres of billowing, stifling cloth...