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Bony Body. In 40 years, Fuess (pronounced Fuss, Few-ess, Feis and Foos-but he prefers Fease) came to know some of the nation's top schoolmen, and he soon realized that the "caricature of the pedagogue with . . . his emaciated and bony body, his oversized horn spectacles, and his hairless, shining dome, in no way corresponds to reality...
...Pronounced (in Tennessee, at least): Ess-tess Kee-fawver...
Bequests to Charity. In Los Angeles, Gordon C. Van Ess, a laborer, left a will bequeathing: 1) his estate to his mother, 2) his body to the nearest medical college, 3) his love to all the girls, 4) his brain to Harry Truman...
...Zealand used to be full of flight-.ess birds, including the giant moa twelve feet tall. They had scrapped their flying apparatus because they didn't need it; there were few ground enemies to zoom away from. But when man (first the Maoris, then the whites) arrived in New Zealand, bringing along dogs, cats and rats, the flightless birds had a tough time. Some went the way of the dodo...
With Tiger, the Flames started burning brighter. Haynes jots down phrases that he says come to him in his dreams. His latest, already made into a song: Ya Ess Goony Gress. On stage, the Flames seem to be amusing each other, and don't seem to mind if the audience listens...