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Oranges & Pennies. Author Dallin, an old Russian Social Democrat who fled the Bolsheviks in 1921 and has lived in the U.S. since 1940, has doggedly forked over a mountainous compost heap of material (main sources: court and tribunal transcripts, memoirs of ex-spies), covering networks in Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada...
Despite having fallen down once off toppling legs, such was Zwirnor's courage that he hung on grimly, 20 yards ahead of the onrushing Schelaeppi. Just ten yards before the finish line his legs gave out and he collapsed in a throbbing heap. He rolled over on his knees but could no get up and so never finished the race Schlaeppi...
...spending his hard-earned money on capital equipment he could not sell at the market, he began to tie himself to the farm. His decision to drop music was painful, but Joe Moore says firmly, "I don't like to do anything half." So into the scrap heap went his ideas of singing professionally, into the attic went the tenor saxophone his mother had given him, and into the business of farming went Joe Moore...
...surface. But I don't know what happened after that. All I know is that something must have hit me in the head and knocked me out." When she came to, Mrs. Johnson discovered that she and a small girl had been cast up on a heap of debris. In the morning Mrs. Johnson learned that her daughter had been saved but that her two sons and 29 other campers were dead...
Saved from the Fire. Along with other refuse of war, the piano was supposed to be burned on a giant scrap heap in the desert. Carmi did not suspect that there might be anything special about it, but he could not bear the thought of any piano's being burned, no matter how old and battered. He got permission from his superior officer to keep it out of the flames. Later, partially restored but still encased in plaster, the piano was given to a troupe of entertainers touring the British armies in the Mediterranean...