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...company, resigned as president in 1948. Following record 1955 sales of $448 million, I.T. & T. in the first quarter of 1956 reported a 6% jump in earnings per share over the same period last year, landed contracts to man and maintain the Air Force's radar Dew line in the arctic and the "White Alice" system in Alaska...
...came to your house to spend a day or tew . . . From the phonograph at a dime store record counter another voice in another version lilted with a bouncy, corn pone accompaniment: If He came unexpected, I wonder whut yew'd dew...
...closing time, and the band went into the "Sunset Ceremony." At the end, the band stopped playing and a spotlight picked out a lone piper-high in the gallery, as if he were perched on a castle battlement-playing a lullabye called Highland Cradle Song. It was enough to dew the eyes of even the un-kilted. The only thing missing from the program was a dirge or two, for Scots are among the world's finest dirgers...
Outside, Joe knelt in the dew-laden Bermuda grass, tied his shoe laces, then swung off in easy, economical strides toward the neat, white smokehouse. There, ducking under three Tennessee hams and some sides of smoked fatback, he filled a five-gallon grease bucket with wheat shorts, crimped oats and water to make a slop for the four Duroc sows that were nursing their first litters in the orchard lot. To the hog troughs he took the shortest route, leading through the family cemetery behind the house. As the wire gate clicked shut behind him, Joe passed by the chest...
...Francisco's Buena Vista bar alone, consumption of Irish whisky leaped from two cases a year to 1,000 cases, an average of 700 Irish coffees a day. Visitors from some 40-odd cities where Delaplane's column runs turned up in droves to sample the magic dew. The consumption of Irish coffee has become so great that exports of Irish whisky to the U.S. increased 40% last year, to 10,000 cases. In Manhattan, bistros from Pat Moriarty's Chop House (price: 85?) to the 21 Club (price: $1.75) have begun ladling out Irish coffee...