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Rake's Progress. In Eastbourne, England, Albert Storey told police that, after 17 years as the keeper of a hotel's liquor cellar without snitching a single drink, he had during the last five years-under the influence and with the assistance of a woman friend-stolen and consumed some 4,337 bottles of beer, 75 bottles of whisky, 49 bottles of gin, 11 bottles of sherry...
Another new rule gave Penn its third goal as the second half opened. Last winter the N.C.A.A. soccer rules committee decreed that a goalie could no longer dribble the length of the penalty area before getting rid of a ball. The goal-keeper can now only take four steps before throwing, or punting...
...Thunder Rock" centers on a disillusioned newspaperman who has shut himself up as a lighthouse keeper, believing he can no longer be useful to a world headed for war. He has peopled the terrible isolation of his job with the long-dead victims of a shipwreck on the rock; the has taken their names from an old log-book, and given them substance in his mid. He talks and moves and lives with these people; through a series of flashbacks he mentally reconstructs the events which brought them onto the pitching Lake packet. These flashbacks, with their imagined characters interacting...
...keep down panic. People will have to learn that their survival depends on everyone keeping his wits about him and learning not only to help his neighbor but to rely on his neighbor's help. Everyone must become his brother's keeper...
...detail about a human friend sometimes puzzles animals: whether he is male or female. Often males decide the keeper is female, and try to fight over him or mate with him. "A tame emu in the Basle zoo," says Dr. Hediger solemnly, "reguiarly tries to mate with its keeper. If it happens with a moose . . . the man concerned is in some danger...