Word: eggs
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Wayne Harbour, 51, is a butter & egg man in Bedford, Iowa, who has a peculiar hobby: being skeptical about Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" cartoons. Since 1943, when he doubted a Ripley item about a radish growing out of a carrot, Harbour has sent out 5,600 checking letters near &. far, received 2,200 replies, only a few of which disputed the cartoon...
Last week Butter & Egg Man Harbour got this reply from Delhi's Chief Commissioner Shankar Prasada: "I am sorry to disappoint you, but I much regret to say that I have not had the pleasure of meeting the 'Human Top,' much less see it whirl ... I hope that this will be a warning to you and to many other credulous gentlemen not to take seriously . . . the sensational nonsense that is sometimes published about the so-called Mysterious East." Delhi's Hindustan Times added its own tart postscript: "Our American friends are ... sometimes no better than grown...
...Reader English passed too rapidly over the preceding lines: ". . .A precious egg had been hatched. From it had stepped a baby whooping crane...
...Chair-Warmer. Here, in the concrete, was the glowering, complex malady known as "The Farm Problem." Seated last week in the middle of it, buried to the top of his egg-bald dome in crop surpluses, statistical mousetraps and political pitchforks, was Charles Franklin Brannan, a plain, earnest, city lawyer from Denver, who is the 14th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.* A sturdy (185 lbs.) six-footer with inquisitive brown eyes, a hard-to-ruffle temperament and a scrubbed look, Charlie Brannan had neither farming experience, pocketfuls of votes nor campaign dollars to commend him when Harry Truman plucked him from...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...