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Henry Bone, a white restaurant keeper from Waverly, had set out in his 1946 car on a drunken spree. At the wheel was "Blue" Pearson, his chauffeur for 15 years. Beside Pearson sat Roy Lee Johnson, who also had worked for Bone. Both, in the words of Mount Pleasant's white folks, were "good niggers...
...innocent government major threaded his way to crafts Physics Laboratory to beard the scientific mind in its lair, yesterday. Slide rules glowered at him and vacuum pumps threatened him with exhaustion. Quietly he slipped into the office of Howard H. Taken, keeper of the University's mathematical mechanical brain, said by many to feed on classics concentrators, and sat down to chew his nails...
...could get, finally wound up as an able-bodied seaman. For O'Neill the discovery of the sea was almost a religious experience. Later in Manhattan, he bummed around at a saloon called Jimmy the Priest's (Jimmy was the prototype of the saloon keeper in The Iceman Cometh). Later he acted in his father's stock company...
...their own home; Buckingham Palace has been organized. Two hundred and fifty-six of the 260 royal domestics have joined the Civil Servants Union, which is now negotiating with the Trades Union Congress for affiliation. In collective bargaining with His Majesty's servants, Sir Ulick Alexander, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Sir Piers Legh, the Master of the King's Household, will represent the King...
Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues...