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...Darkness. A lamp flashed down the shaft 40 ft. below showed that Moss was trapped by the breadth of his shoulders. Ropes were quickly lowered, but Moss was wedged so tightly that he could not move his arms. More serious, the air in the passage was foul. As hours passed, Moss alternately gritted his teeth and joked with the men trying to help him. An oxygen mask was lowered, but there was not even room enough to fit it over his face. After four hours he became delirious, finally drifted into unconsciousness...
...dirty lyin' skunk," the man in the black hat snarled. "Reach for them plowhandles an' I'll blow ya in half-pocket-high!" Such scenes of life in the wild but carefully censored West are familiar to every watcher of Zworykin's magic lamp these days. But how many western fans or foes are aware of what goes on behind the scenes? Of horses that make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas...
...operation since 1929, New Zealand's radio education programs for primary and secondary schools are tuned in daily by some 3,000 pupils like Rosetta, who send in their completed lessons by mail. Rosetta resolutely kept at her lessons, switching to a battery radio and kerosene lamp when the family's moody generator failed, and her teachers soon came to know her as well as if she had a front-row desk in their classrooms. She got a prize for written composition at eleven, and last year she graduated from high school with an armful of honors...
...Lark, wrote' letters, gave speeches, finally staged a huge parade depicting the company history from Studebaker's first Conestoga wagon in 1852 to the present. The county A.F.L.-C.I.O. council mailed 14,000 letters across the U.S. pushing the Lark. Along South Bend streets, every third street lamp was plastered with...
...hadn't grabbed that wire, I'd have probably been a third-rate pug myself," he says cheerfully. Joe Louis and Billy Conn are among his cronies, and Carmen Basilic, onetime middleweight champion, is a hero. "Oh, that Basilio!" he enthuses. "Did you see the way his lamp went out in that last Robinson fight? Why, he's all guts. That little bastard will never go hungry as long as I'm eating...