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...after school chores in his father's shop were in order. These chores were good experience in more than shoemaking. Rushing the growler for his father, Peter found it expeditions to slip off a hit of the beer that might otherwise have spilled in transit. "In a family of fourteen, anyhow, there never was enough milk for everybody...
...Fourteen prospective buyers, including a big insurance firm and MIT, are already bidding for the old headquarters. Announcement of the sale will come as soon as appraisers can assess the value. Once the new owner moves in, there's a good chance he will be able to hire back some of the help Lever will soon be dismissing...
There were certain delays. The delegation was asked, with horror, why it had not had a police escort. The answer: "We trusted in the Lord, as always." Fourteen tellers were set to work counting up the bills, needed 3½ hours to verify the total. But by evening the faithful had their check. By the next day the hotel had been purchased and one Brother Germain had announced new rules for guests: 1) no smoking, 2) no drinking, 3) no wives and husbands allowed in the same bedroom...
...varsity crew, minus stroke Bill Curwen, left for Ithaca last night to try and break the Cornell jinx. In the fourteen years since Tom Bolles took up coaching here, Harvard has never beaten the Big Red on the waters of Lake Cayuga...
...good example of the stream-of-action technique, the ingenious but credible situations and the direct, undecorated prose that have made him the best-selling author alive. In 25? Pocket Book editions alone, 28 of his books have sold more than 30 million copies in less than nine years. Fourteen Gardner titles have gone over the million mark; The Case of the Lucky Legs alone has hit the incredible figure, for a detective story, of 2,000,000. In all editions, hard and paper cover, Gardner's books have sold more than 37 million copies,* are now moving over...