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...whisky with ginger-ale and strawberry soda, but after 17 years on the wagon, Teddy abstained. "I still feel bitter," he said, "but I got to dissipate it. It isn't any good that way." In a tawdry North LaSalle Street walkup, Vera Walush thumbed through a deck of cards and observed: "I got nothin...
...floor, crawl into the canvas funnel and up through the hatch. "We formed a queue as though we were waiting for a bus," said one survivor. The trip to the surface took 40 seconds. After he got outside, Engine Room Artificer Frank Mossman was snagged by a piece of deck rigging. "I was caught on it for about a minute, but it seemed an eternity," he said...
...Problem Play, among other things. The Problem is this: should we cling to our most sacred beliefs when we are faced by adversity and even death in doing so? It is not hard to see that the authors of this play, William Berney and Howard Richardson, have stacked the deck on favor of a great big "yes" with a halo over it. But they have done the trick in a good-natured ingenuous manner, and most people will be inclined to overlook the prestidigitation...
Blood Bank. Last week, on Study Deck 38 of the Library of Congress, surrounded by reels of film stacked high like giant coins, William Jenkins was sorting, indexing, and cataloguing his Monumenta Americana. When a 600-page inventory is published three months from now, historians will be able to locate material that few would ever have been able to see before, and scholars, schools and libraries can then order the documents themselves on microfilm...
...strike of 2,000 AFL deck officers operating from Gulf and Atlantic coast ports, which threatened to tie up all shipping in the region, was postponed last night on the plea of government mediators. The strike had been called for midnight...