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...week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...
Twenty-one-gun salute-the hog...
...nice-looking fellow," said Farmer Eisenhower, as the pig romped out. "There's your new home, Butch; go right in." Butch waddled into the pig pen. When photographers asked the President to call the pig, he' obliged with a fine Abilene-style hog call. "Sooooooey, soooooey, hoh, peeg, peeg, peeg," he crooned. Then he glanced at his watch. "I better get back to work," he said. The reporters trailed after him into the small original fieldstone wing of the 100-year-old house. The President sat down at a small pine desk and glumly contemplated a stack...
...going through his acrobatic gyrations-lunging for bad pitches, darting like a great cat after well-dropped bunts, settling under pop fouls or wheeling and firing to pick a man off base-Campy keeps the good catcher's track of every aspect of the game. It takes a hog-wild pitcher to whip a ball out of Campanella's reach, or stick a pitch in the dirt that he cannot dig out. "I line up my body for the way it's coming in," he says, "and jump if it's too much outside...
Since 1791, when the U.S. imposed the first tax on whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...