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Feature attraction on the "off" track is the Inaugural Handicap ($2,500) with New England's adroitest pick-pockets running second best. The three men with the crystal balls at the CRIMSON see 'em this...
...three schools-the Academy of Christian Education, Patten College and Patten Seminary. Students joined up at the rate of 300 a year, paying $20 a month tuition, slipping on bright school sweaters with big block Ps, and learning the school yells. Sample, adopted from the old "Give 'em the ax": "Give 'em the Word, the Word, the Word." Some paid $5 for the academy's first and only yearbook, The Portal, a tome which explained Brother Tom's role in the world: "After scanning the honor roll of the obedient, the eyes of God rested...
...good enough for a guest spot on his radio show. By 1941, 17-year-old Maggie had struck out on her own, got on Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade. But her sweet and slow singing did not please irascible Tobacco Huckster George Washington Hill, who "liked 'em loud and fast." She was fired after four weeks...
...with poor hearing (whether they know it or not) are emotionally upset. Instead of becoming dulled to noise, they become super-sensitive to it. Said one chipper: "When I go home I want peace & quiet more than food. If my kids make a racket, I feel like whipping 'em right away." Hargrave, who wears an inconspicuous hearing aid, believes that much ear damage could be prevented if workers on noisy jobs would wear plastic ear plugs...
...much, Withers," says one schoolboy to another in Seaton's Aunt, one of the grisliest of the Tales, "but you know all the same." "Know what?" "Why, that they're there." "Who's there?" "Why, in the house. It swarms with 'em." By the end of the story the reader is likely to agree, without ever having been told just what " 'em...