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Apprenticed to a master chimneysweeper ; at the age of twelve years, Lawrence climbed flues for seven years before he turned from the unappealing work to butchering and then operating a gas plant, occupations which he found more suitable to his inclination to improve his position financially and socially. During his seven years as a "chummy," Lawrence had many surprising adventures as he scraped his way up one flue and down another, usually in the buff. As an old man he was especially fond of telling newspaper reporters how he frightened one maiden lady by emerging from the fireplace near...
Unconnected Saucers. A slight intramural argument broke out within the Air Force after two weird and ancient flying machines were found in a tobacco barn eleven miles from Baltimore. An unofficial spokesman who announced happily that they were probably prototypes of the flying saucer was hastily reversed by another spokesman who snapped: "Absolutely no connection...
...just another sample of the "same caution, the same hesitation, the same wait-awhile" of prewar isolationism. "There's more talk around here about Communism, but it's a funny thing that when we start to do something about it those speaking the loudest against Communism are found wanting...
Like an amateur detective, Henry searched his wife's room. In her diary he found an entry: Dined C. D. evening. Party. Nuff Said. To Henry, Nuff Said meant wickedly delightful. Reveling in his betrayal, Henry manufactured situations to throw Madge and Diver together. He faked a business trip and returned unexpectedly to find somebody's cigarette in Madge's bedroom (the window cleaner's, she said). In a little notebook he carefully wrote down all his "evidence...
...taken a bit of doing, but the love & romance comics had succeeded in doing the impossible: they had found a way to simplify the "I see the cat" prose long purveyed by the older pulps. Like the pulps, the comics generally pictured handsome heroes with hearts of gold, equally handsome villains with chests of gold, and beautiful heroines with obvious reasons for being led astray. The moral in all the stories was dutifully plain: justice and virtue eventually triumphed...