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...classes are the same. In his starched white lab coat, with his rimless spectacles twinkling in the light, Haldy lectures quietly. Sometimes he mixes a few snatches of Shakespeare, bits of astronomy or cracker-barrel saws into his chemical formulas. He never raises his voice, but the excitement of his subject gets across...
...result was a deceptively artless poetry of common speech. But behind the apparent artlessness was a cracker-barrel Socrates with a sense of humor-a pawky humor that was partly serious when it seemed most irreverent, gently mocking when it seemed most grave...
...Truman's rebuff was possibly the Democrats' gain-Hennings looked like a better campaigner than Allison against the Republicans' Senator Forrest Donnell, an earnest, hair-splitting legalist in the Senate (where he is known as "The Big Itch"), but a cracker-barrel, Bible-quoting spellbinder along Missouri's back roads...
...Atlanta, more & more baseball fans were deserting the bleachers for their television sets. The Atlanta Crackers' President Earl Mann decided that something would have to be done. During the regular screening of the Crackers' game one night last week, the announcer first tried a little gentle persuasion: "If you want the national pastime continued on your TV set, make every effort to get out here at least once in the next few days . . . Realize that a few dollars spent for tickets is a small expenditure to protect your sports investment in your TV set." Then President Mann stepped...
...techniques remained as firmly traditional as "Teddy bear, Teddy bear" or "Icka backa, soda cracker." "Pepper" (fast turns with one hop a turn) was likely to be called "skinning" or "the fasties...