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...like to drink can't write . . . Never trust a man who doesn't feel better when he's tanked up . . . But,' he spat in the spittoon, and his face became serious ... 'I have no use for anybody who neglects his work for drink ing or for women. Work comes first. All the time. Drinking, like lovemaking, is for the evening hours and the short hours of the morning. Only bankers, utility moguls, insurance-company presidents, Methodist bishops, Catholic monsignori, managing editors of newspapers, and other such swine drink during...
...swarming attack of pushes and pawings mixed with a few punches had Patterson going backward for the greater part of three rounds. But Patterson was more chastened than hurt; he came back in the final rounds with a crowd-rousing demonstration of a light-heavy frappéing the brains of a cast-iron heavyweight. Jackson somehow stayed on his feet, twice taking the scenic route back to his corner, but always up and eager for the next round. "How can Jackson stand up under that?" a woman asked in the stands. "It's not human!" Said her escort...
...Leverone soon found that if vend ing-machine operators had been crooked, the customers were worse. In its first year Leverone's company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs...
...Ladyldllers. Farcical larceny, with light-fingered Alec Guinness lifting ?60,000 from an armored truck and then los ing it-and the picture-to scene-stealing Katie Johnson (TIME, March...
...challenging and plain-spoken document, the Church of England last week called on all Britons to revise their think ing about sexual offenders. A special council set up to study the problem said that the church sternly and without reservation "condemns all infractions of the Christian teaching on sexual chastity," but nevertheless contends that "long experience has shown that it is futile to attempt to crush sexual immorality by statutory measures and police action." Because consideration of the subject "is repugnant to many thinking people, for many years much-needed reforms in the laws relating to homosexual offenses and prostitution...