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...bullet shattered a window at BayBank, one hit a wall near the window and a third bullet hit a mailbox in front of the bank, police said...
...construction paper Valentine's Day mailbox was completely full by the time I peeked inside. I was the fastest girl in all of Mrs. McKay's fourth grade class, having been clocked with the best 50-yard dash time (except for Celia Hanley, but she was my best friend so that was okay). Because I was so fleet of foot, I was the first one finished handing out all those valentines I'd made...
...have been destined for his assignment in Africa. When he was a boy, his paternal grandfather, a chemical-company executive, filled his head with great tales about his work and travels throughout the dark continent in the 1920s, while his maternal grandmother, who lived in South Africa, filled his mailbox with wooden spears, shields, even plastic Zulu dolls. When Purvis turned 21, he started out on a year of thumbing across Africa, riding mostly on transport trucks and camping out alone or staying with Peace Corps volunteers. "Back then I made a point of avoiding trouble spots," says Purvis...
Last spring Marian Piper Thompson (class of '39) picked the notice of the reunion out of her mailbox in Townsville, Australia. There were 10,000 intimidating miles between her and her high school. "I'd decided I could not afford a trip this year," she said. "But when I got the letter I knew I couldn't stay away...
...love of plowing is in the Goettemoeller genes. Old Lou, the patriarch now dead, started plowing with horses and was a national champion in 1956 and '57. One of his small hand plows decorates the mailbox of his son Bill, 55, who was a national winner along with his brother Jim. Every spring when the weather mellows, Bill feels the pull of the land and the urge to put his hand to a plow. "There is nothing I'd rather do than plow," he says. "My father used to say, 'A good plowman is a good farmer...