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Before Dunlap's conference was over, he was handed a telegram from San Francisco. After a hasty reading, he slammed his fist on his desk. "Here's another," he announced in angry exasperation. Dorothy C. Frisbee, a 14-year veteran of the bureau, had admitted to embezzling $5...
The Red Skelton Show (Sun. 10 p.m., NBC-TV), the West Coast's second bid for nationwide attention, marks the first TV appearance of ex-burlesque Comic Red Skelton. The show opened and closed with Skelton flat on his back on the stage. In between, he got his head...
The little girl took a picture book, sat down under the table with her back to Tom, and slowly, carefully, examined each page. "It's got a crooked wheel," Tom said, "that's what it is." The little girl made no answer. She was staring at the book...
"God writes straight with crooked lines," muttered an old woman of the island as she poked her peevish fire. In her roundabout way, she was meaning Vera Reilly and Martin Gallagher and she was right in at least this much, that no human hand" could make straight the vexatious scribble...
Up & down a 15-inch-gauge, 500-yard track scooted two not-too-reasonable facsimiles of the Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a...