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After the Dodgers piled up a 3 to 0 lead in the first four innings, the Phillies came back to finally tie it up in the eighth on Andy Seminick's homer with one man on. Then Richie Ashburn and Willie "Puddinhead" Jones singled in the ninth to hand the Brooks their fourth defeat in their last five games...
Like the fabled blind men of Indostan, two Senators and a Representative last week dropped by SHAPE headquarters near Paris for a chat with General Eisenhower, then failed utterly to agree on what they observed. Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson was convinced that Ike is a Republican: "I didn't ask . . . I've known him a long time. When you know a man well, you don't feel it necessary to ask." North Carolina's Democratic Senator Willis Smith thought the elephant looked more like a Democratic donkey: "I got no impression from General...
...writing was not considered the respectable, sedentary occupation it has become today: in a politician it seemed to suggest a temperament highly mercurial and unstatesmanlike as compared, for instance, with that of Lord Derby, who once refused to discuss the progress of the Crimean War because he "was translating Homer and did not wish to talk politics." Moreover...
Taps. In Decatur, Ill., one of the customers whose water service was discontinued for failure to pay the bill was City Waterworks Superintendent Homer Chastain...
...gathered around him a brilliant, erratic crew of staffers and contributors (Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Edwin Markham, Homer Davenport, et al.), entertained them by dancing jigs in the office, striding through the streets with a cane that whistled, and in more corruptive ways. He was great fun to work for; after a hard day in the newsroom he liked to gather the staff at his big house for lavish parties complete [said horrified gossips] with "abandoned dancing girls." After his father died (1891), someone complained to his mother that Willie was wasting the family fortune away at $1 million...