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...there was a renascence of sprightlier activity. In Los Angeles one Jim Moran, who had once sold an icebox to an Eskimo, was sitting on an ostrich egg. He wore a feather headdress, a pair of "hatching pants" and thought he would bring forth a small ostrich in 25 days. Newark had a "pants burglar," who came in through windows like a wraith, left a penny on the floor for his victims. In Ellensburg, Wash, an ex-cowpuncher named Larry Hightower was preparing to push a wheelbarrow around the world...
...Price Boss Chester Bowles paled at the thought of a general price rise. Honest differences of opinion seriously hobbled action. Said ex-UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman: the Administration had "failed to do everything it could," had "gambled" with the lives of millions. Everybody seemed to have heard the feather step of famine at the same time, and everybody had his own idea of which way to run for help...
...Yves Tanguy ("He had . . . beautiful little feet of which he was very proud"). Tanguy, who painted deserts strewn with elaborate bones, made her happy sometimes. "There was one drawing that looked so much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place of a tail, and eyes that looked like the china eyes of a doll when its head is broken. . . . Tanguy also designed a little phallic drawing for my cigaret lighter which he had Dunhill engrave. It is the smallest Tanguy in the world...
...chugged along, a half -stride behind the long-striding king of U.S. milers, Les MacMitchell. The 150-lb. Frenchman ran with feather-footed ease, his arms high, no pumping. He arranged to have fractional times called in French - 2:12.4 at the half, tantalizingly slow for Madison Square Garden's fast track. Suddenly, with the finish almost in sight, Marcel ran out of gas, wound up third, 12 yards back of MacMitchell. Time...
...victorious animals tossed all bits, nose rings, dog chains and castrating knives down the well. Then they tiptoed into the farmhouse, gazed with awe at the luxury of feather mattresses, the Brussels carpet and a lithograph of Queen Victoria. The animals voted unanimously that the farmhouse should be preserved as a museum. Some hams, found hanging in the kitchen, were reverently buried...