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.../Who told the tale I now rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water; /We ate the cook, we ate the mate, we ate the captain's daughter./The sails grew mould overhead--ha! ha! the fishes laughed,--/We broke into the medicine chest, and all its contents quaffed. Thus the Advocate 85 years...
...three 13-mile races, Commodore Carter Ford will skipper, with John Marshall as mate in charge of foredeck operations. The rest of the crew includes Peter Farrow, James and Rick Burns, William Gallagher, Mike Deland, and Mike Horne...
...comes in first, many salesmen try to sell her on the car's color and upholstery, quoting her a price considerably above their rock-bottom offer. When the husband comes in later, they boost his ego by letting him force the price down, so he can show his mate that he is the sharp bargainer in the family...
Last year, as Iowa's incumbent Democratic Governor, U.S. Senate candidate and favorite-son choice for President, Herschel Loveless was avidly courted by White House Aspirant Jack Kennedy, had every reason to hope he would be Kennedy's selection as vice-presidential running mate. But Country Boy Loveless was disappointed by the Yankee trader. Passed up for Vice President, Loveless was defeated for the Senate and overlooked for Secretary of Agriculture. In January, Kennedy finally named him to a $20,000 post on the Federal Renegotiation Board. And as of last week it seemed that Loveless might even...
When not the target of hostile fire, the Special Artist was frequently decommissioned by the many illnesses and hard ships of the field. "I was down with an attack of the billious remittent fever. Brought on by exposure to the damned cli mate in the cussed swamps," wrote Alfred Waud, who was more artistic than literary, to a friend back home in 1862. Waud's brother William, who came to the U.S. from England in the 1850s and became a Special for Leslie's, fared little better. Wrote Alfred about Will: "Three weeks ago he had a sunstroke...