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...reason why I didn't go this time is because Jack Frost and Jim Freeze were meeting some cousins of theirs down at the Touraine. The Touraine is certainly a nice place, Ma. The people there are so friendly. I'd tell you more about the time I had here, but you know, the same old story, we just sat around having "cokes" and discussing Philosophies. Who's Freud, Ma...
...Ma, do you know anything about the churches in Boston? Bob Gottschling and Poo-Poo Jaffa tried to get me in go with them to an old church on Howard Street last week. It was an odd time for the service, it seemed to me. They said things started at 8 P. M. and went to midnight. They said that everybody goes there. Maybe I'll go with them the next time...
...Chick Henn, the Toastmaster, to let me render the poem I recited at graduation from good old Tizdale High. Mr. Henn thought that the program was long enough already. He said that if I had spoken to him sooner he would have been glad to use me. Remember, Ma, how I recited it at Uncle Newt's wedding...
...mistakes go uncorrected. Thus when she meant to write, "Kiss Susy [Twain's daughter] for me," it came out "Kill Susy for me." To which Twain replied: "I said to Livy [his wife], 'It is a hard thing to ask of loving parents, but Ma is getting old and her slightest whim must be our law'; so I called in Downey, and Livy and I held the child with the tears streaming down our faces while he sawed her head...
...year in the Pacific. While the world's eyes were on Europe, there were nothing but routine operations from Brisbane to Adak. Truk was bombed, and so was the phosphate-producing island of Nauru, which is isolated south of the Marshalls. In Dutch New Guinea, General Ma-Arthur's troops killed 398 more Japs and captured 173. It was announced that Thirteenth Air Force P39 Airacobras and dive bombers are now equipped with rocket guns, had sunk 40 supply barges in Rabaul harbor with the new equipment presumably mounted in clusters of three under each plane...