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Boshell thought some value could be recovered for all stockholders. But he was also convinced that nobody knew the real value of Standard's maze of interlocking holdings. He decided that he could not tell until he unscrambled it at the bottom...
...loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
Birth of Society. Old Father Jesus was lowered into the cave. The nearest chamber was 300 feet wide, with drawings of bison decorating the walls. Behind it was a maze of passages. He pushed into their darkness. About 1,000 feet inside the mountain he found what he had hoped for: in the middle of a chamber stood a polished stone, carved to resemble a bison. At one side was a thronelike seat for a priest or chief. "This was their main sanctuary," said Father Jesus. "It was their cathedral, the heart of the prehistoric city of Mt. Castillo...
...convention ended none too soon. Announcers and crews were probably all as tired as one nerve-racked ABC announcer who stood outside Eisenhower's hotel room before the general left to make his acceptance speech. Shouted the announcer, as he tried to fight his way out of a maze of wires, legs, cameras and people: "We're waiting for the general now. We don't know when he'll come out. And frankly, I don't care any more...
...became the top U.S. humorist of the day. He did it largely by making all the world a rabbit hutch and every man in it his father's brother. His first 17 books of prose and drawings, with their battles between the sexes, their bewildered males running a maze that leads inevitably into another, are the century's finest guidebooks to the schizophrenic ward of modern man's booby hatch. His new one. The Thurber Album, is a gently humorous grab bag of reminiscence, and a tribute to his family, his friends, and the all-but-normal...