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...hospitalized with a broken left shoulder. On each of the three anniversary days, some 20 to 30 others were bedded with rheumatics, colds, shock, weariness. That was not bad, for their average age was 94. Oldest was Negro William A. Barnes, 112, of Oakland. Calif., who brought an ample gin supply. Youngest were several of 88, who were 13 (having lied about their age) that afternoon when Pickett's charge lapped the crest of Cemetery Ridge and rolled back crushing the hopes of the Confederacy...
...thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into a ditch and been arrested...
...hottest and most humid ports in the world is equatorial Singapore, where sallow white skins seldom stop perspiring, never suntan. To make the welcome as warm and damp as possible, the messes of every British ship prepared long pink rows of Singapore Gin Slings for U. S. officers.* The city of Singapore and the British Government voted 2,000 Straits dollars ($1,200) for the entertainment of the U. S. crews. Wrote the Singapore Free Press: "The most casual observer can see that the decision to send three American cruisers to Singapore was actuated by more than a desire...
...elevate the standards of journalism." Three distant relatives shortly declared that the 75-year-old lady was mentally unsound when she drew her testament four days before she died. They brought her nurse to court to testify that some nights Mrs. Nieman "would drink half a bottle (of gin), some nights a full bottle. . . ." No one could guess why Mrs. Nieman wanted Harvard to have her money, reputedly $5,000,000, and even Harvard's President James Bryant Conant shied off a bit, firm in the conviction that Harvard wanted no journalism school...
...nests and eat the grubs. The ants tolerate this because they like a sticky substance which the butterfly exudes. "It is," commented owl-eyed Biologist Huxley, "as if a nursemaid were to allow a wolf to carry off the baby from her pram in return for a nip of gin...