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...have a drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom's "Neanderthal bloc," and Fort Knox seems well on its way to becoming the biggest compost heap in the world...
...counterattack that went on for months. In the 200-odd dailies that carry his column, and over his Sunday-night radio-TV broadcast, Winchell called the Post everything from a "pinko-stinko sheet" and the "New York Ivan" to the "New York Posterior," the "New York Pravda" and the "Compost." He also suggested that the Post's staff was riddled with subversives. For Post Editor James A. Wechsler he had a separate set of Winchellisms, e.g., "Cherry Coke Wexla," "James Jake Ivan Wechsler," "New York Post's General Pinko," and "Pinko Punko." In reply, the Post and Wechsler...
...Some ants are gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
...Machinery lies all around the railroad stations. One can see everywhere mounds of broken parts lying in the mud . . . Many things get spoiled. Gasoline, lubricants, hay, spares, combines are being kept together in one backyard; hay mowers rot in the compost . . . Some spare parts are just thrown into the middle of the street, and the tractors which go by crush them to pieces...
...newspapers that run his syndicated column, Walter Winchell has been having trouble. He is feuding with so many enemies-e.g., the New York Post ("New York Poo," "Postitute," "Compost"), Disk Jockey Barry Gray ("Borey Pink," "a disk jerk") and Columnist Leonard Lyons* ("author of the 'Liar's Den' "), that editors and readers outside Manhattan often don't know what Winchell is talking about. As a result, editors have been cutting or killing many of his columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week...