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...shows the Los Angeles, blown skyward by a sudden gust, sweeping the16,800-ton oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing the saxophone, their ladies drinking cocktails through straws at a bar. Scenes of "Al Capone at Home," showing the gangster's "Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous...
...years of marriage he wrote to her: "I do not think I am a bad father, and yet I love my wife a little better than any child I have, good as all mine are. Can this be because the wife is so good, or because I am a fool?" He loved to play chess with her, Pepyshly noted in his diary who won. He was a good sport. Once he sent some logs to the mill to be cut into boards. "The miller claimed the 'slab' and the first board in each log as a perquisite...
...have nothing to do with such a fool session. . . . Only a fool would travel to Jackson at his own expense. . . . If the legislators want to save the State's credit and take care of suffering school teachers and the insane, then let them sign the [non-impeachment] pledge and I'll announce the call within 30 minutes...
...Since he returned from his trip around the world to prove that it is flat (TIME, March 16), it. had been reported that he was dying. "I shall not die until 1976!" he cried. (He is now 61.) "I merely-scalded my foot while bathing. I was a silly fool to scald myself and will never go near a bathtub again as long as I live...
...appears that aviation has again taken a hard blow and intercollegiate flying circles especially will suffer. No parent seeing the blaring headlines of students crashing to the ground will readily become airminded to the extent that sonny will be allowed to go up in the near future. Until a fool-proof ship has been designed and put on the market, sonny must remain on the ground; while father uses the airplane in his business...