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...about the problem: "The life of William Shakespeare is a fine mystery," he wrote, "and I tremble every day lest something should turn up." Among those who have gone further and insisted that William Shakespeare was a mere pen name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting of Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe and the Earls...
...grey Thedestrasse, the prospect of ever getting a proper place to play seemed just about hopeless. Then, one day in 1950, Teacher Walter Pareik spotted an ad in a local paper: a certain farmer was offering to pay 2.20 Deutsche Marks (52?) for no Ibs. of potato peels for hog feed. If one farmer was willing to spend that kind of money, reasoned Teacher Pareik, why not others? Perhaps the Thedestrasse high school should go into business...
...pitch long enough"), he obviously rated a favored spot in Rice's heart. After reeling off a flock of other peoples' stories about Dean, Granny tells of the time he sat on the train with Diz and his brother Paul the season the two Ozark hog callers won 49 games for the St. Louis Cardinals. Paul was lustily swigging a bottle of pop when the train roared into a long tunnel. "Diz," exclaimed Paul. "You tried any of this stuff?" "Just fixin' to," replied Diz. "Don't!" cautioned Paul. "I did, and I've gone...
PORK PRICES this summer are expected to be almost one-third under last year's because of a big drop in wholesale hog prices. Reasons: housewives balked at high prices in 1954, got out of the pork-buying habit; meanwhile 1955 hog production will run about 10% higher than...
...Albany (N.Y.), carries 4,000 commuters a day into Manhattan. According to Young, it is losing some $3.000,000 annually on passengers. At the meeting, a young matron strode determinedly onstage carrying a pig labeled "Young Bob." Beside her stood another flushed lady holding aloft a sign saying: "A hog will be able to ride the West Shore...