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...Gasping Tractors. One hundred miles from the Pole, the going got worse. The altitude, 11,000 ft., made the faithful tractors gasp for breath, and the snow got so soft that they often sank deeply into it and had to be manhandled out. Once the unemotional Hillary radioed: "I thought at one time that this might be the end of the line for the tractor train." But the tractors made it, and Hillary would have been all right, of course, if they had not. He was carrying emergency gear and supplies for foot travel to the U.S. base...
...Upton--Gasp...
...kill you," he snarled, a 2-ft. flashlight swinging ominously from his hand. "And all the bells in hell can ring, but they can't stop me." Then the script, something called Come to Me, by Robert Crean and Comic Peter Lind Hayes, called for tool Julie to "gasp audibly" and for demented, drifting Farley to "move forward catlike, impressed with his cleverness," shouting in a "lyric brogue": "There's a radiance to you, Miss, that shines even in the darkness...
With reference to your Sept. 9 article "The Last, Hoarse Gasp": on Aug. 30, 1957, I issued a statement with reference to my extended address against the so-called civil rights bill in which I made the following points: 1) that the Southern Senators agreed that each Senator was on his "own" to oppose the bill as best he could; 2) that I urged another meeting of Southern Senators for the purpose of agreeing to conduct an organized extended debate; and 3) that while urging this meeting I notified Senator Russell that I intended to make a long speech against...
...slobbering fans can plainly see, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp dotes on needle-etched caricatures, e.g., Slobbovian Statesman John Foster Dullnik, curly-haired Pianist Loverboy-nik. As Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould well knows from the strip-within-a-strip Fearless Fosdick, Capp is not even (gasp!) a respecter of funny-paper characters. But last week, while readers watched Capp spoof Cartoonist Allen Saunders' lovable, motherly missus-fixit Mary Worth as a nasty, interfering old harpy named Mary Worm, the worm turned: Capp himself emerged in Mary Worth drawn as a swinish (ugh!), detestable cartoonist named Hal Rapp...