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...name still throbbing in his brain, Vag closed the book. He snapped on the radio and dropped into his arm chair. Through closed eyes he saw again the steaming convention hall. Suddenly a penetrating voice at his elbow interrupted, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this--." Vag leaped to his feet and then sheepishly noticed the radio dial: WRUL. His watch said 7:30 and it was Tuesday, March 5. Of course, this was the Harvard Radio Workshop's program on the Westward Movement. Vag, chuckling, tuned in a little more carefully and settled down...
Chorister Holvik of Elbow Lake, Minnesota, and Eliot House tallied 90 votes. Other candidates and their votes were: Charles D. Lutz, Jr., 70; James A. Rousmaniere, 67; David S. Burt, 63: Edward G. Dreyfus, 53; A. Jan P. La Rue, 50: Bayard S. Clark, 44; Howard P. Mendel, 35; and John L. Donnell...
Some 60 miles north of New Orleans, a mud road strays off from the main highway, cuts through rich, sombre swampland I down to the green levees girdling the Mississippi. There, hidden in an elbow of the I river, far from the nearest village, stands a white-columned plantation house. Guarding the house are two gigantic oaks, shrouded in ghostly Spanish moss. The cottages behind the oaks might belong to sugarcane workers or tenant farmers. But the 367 men & women who live at Carville cut no cane, plough no field. They are lepers...
...Caribbean was her ultimate destination. A few hours out of Newburgh, ice was beginning to elbow his yacht alarmingly, suddenly cut a gash in her planking. In rushed the water. There was nothing to do but abandon ship and take to the rowboat. Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked...
...world in realistic ruins, he stands at the pinnacle of his career. The most conservative member of the Roosevelt Cabinet of New Dealers, he is its best-loved. He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side...