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...estate with great fountains illumined by his name in electric lights, and a $1,300,000 income from gullible patients who insisted on being grafted with goat glands (at $750 an operation). Fishbein observes that the only thing to do with "great charlatans of the Brinkley type" is to lock them up, but thinks that the public's gullibility is probably incurable...
...slum neighborhoods, the runt gets picked on. "I had to fight to stay alive," Billy recalls, "and I always lost." But he always came back for more. One day he came back with a heavy lock dangling at the end of a strap. He knocked out two of his attackers and the rest beat it. Billy learned the lesson: plainly, all men are not created equal-but there are equalizers...
Those horrible little imps who badger bewildered ball players were after Stan Musial. They lock-stepped up & down his bat and chanted in his ear: "You're in a slump . . . you're in a slump...
Blinking and snarling in the glare of publicity, the American Communist Party put in a miserable week. The House Un-American Activities Committee was holding hearings on a bill to outlaw the Communists lock, stock & barrel...
Indifference and its tradition no longer extend into the musical areas of University life, if the sales figures on phonograph records, concerts, and recitals mean anything. A new phenomenon of what might be called selective enthusiasm has moved in lock, stock and barrel: when Briggs & Briggs and McKenna's can sell out their first shipment of the new "Messiah" recording within two days of arrival, when undergraduates will line up for copies of Italian Cetra discs at $3.25 a shot, when the inability of undergraduates to find seats at the BSO's Sanders Theater concerts begins rumblings of revolt...