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Like most small-town rich boys, young Elmer grew up a little apart. His mother and aunt, former schoolteachers, started his education long before he went to school; in a town where most boys preferred swimming off the sand bars, skating on Hogan's Creek or coasting at Dutch...
Along the 761-mile airway between Stratford, Conn., and Dayton, Ohio, farmers in the fields last summer saw a strange craft skittering overhead. It had no wings. Its spraddle-legged landing gear hung gauntly from its snub-nosed body. Above the fuselage whirled a shimmering set of paddles, like a...
Then she told of a trip she had taken to the Heng-Yang Mountains to see the "Rub-the-Mirror Pavilion." There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days muttering "Amita Buddha! Amita Buddha!" The Father Prior took a brick and rubbed it...
> In the Willard (last stop, after appearances at the Stage Door Canteen, Mayflower, Shoreham, Wardman Park, Lincoln Colonnades), Eleanor Roosevelt long-legged it through a corridor smothered with bunting. There her evening was to reach its climax: cutting of a 200-lb. birthday cake. Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen greeted...
Carefully shading the match Vag tried to free himself from the wreek of the three legged ed room chair. Trying to find a safe spot in the day-light was bad enough, but in a blackout--Vag swore softly. Then the match went out. Slightly scorched, Vag disencumbered himself and...