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...cave found on the nearby island of Tortuga by Clement Manigat, a Haitian working for Dr. Barker. It must have been either a ceremonial burial cave or a place for cannibal feasts, possibly both. In it Dr. Barker found human bones that had been broken so that their marrow could be eaten. Other bones were engraved with the faces of gods. There were earthen pots that had perhaps been used for religious or cannibalistic rituals. Dr. Barker is especially stumped by 64 human gall and kidney stones. What this odd hoard may signify he does not know...
...from Linda McGrain, 13, who wanted one of the Nixon family's new kittens. She would get her wish, said Nixon with a grin, provided it would not cost him her mother's vote. With that, the crowd was well warmed up, and ready for the marrow of the speech. It is a well-conceived tactic, to offset the feeling that he is lacking in warmth. He gains from the violence of previous denunciations (such as the ugly shot of him, with the legend: "Would you buy a used car from this man?"), appearing more personable in person...
...Newhart, Nichols and May are warmer personalities than Sahl, other new comedians can be cold enough to freeze the marrow, and are the real source of the term "sick comedians." Chief among them is Lenny Bruce, who whines, uses four-letter words almost as often as conjunctions, talks about rape and amputees, and deserves distinction of a sort for delivering the sickest single line on record. Taking a minority view of the Leopold-Loeb case, he said: "Bobby Franks was snotty." In a class by himself is Jonathan Winters, who finds material in such experiences as being tested for inguinal...
...lover of Hersey's story is Buzz Marrow, pilot of a bomber called The Body, so named because of the nude painted on its nose. Buzz looks like a burly motorcycle cop, rakes over his crew in billingsgate, yips earsplitting war whoops as the bombs drop away, and slavers over off-duty hobbies that would make good latrine-wall copy. Why diffident Copilot Charles Boman, the novel's first-person narrator, hero-worships Buzz is a mystery, but it is presumably because Marrow oozes self-confidence and is a genius at the flight controls. Poor Bo is colorless...
...unexpected windfall; the war, with its tide of Yanks, had swollen circulation to 400,000 and brought untabulated prosperity. Munsey found a cool $1,000,000 cash in the Paris Herald's bank account. But the prosperity was short-lived. Munsey pared the Paris budget to the marrow, handed the paper over as a dubious dividend when he sold the New York Herald in 1924 to Ogden Reid's New York Tribune...