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...with rhyme," confesses Robert Service. "If two lines could be made to clink it seemed to go a long way to justify them. . . . Rhyming has my ruin been. With less deftness I might have produced real poetry." Many a middle-aged American would not trade The Shooting of Dan McGrew or The Cremation of Sam McGee for all the "real poetry" in the language. Robert W. Service rarely shows up in the better anthologies or in college English courses...
...TIME for libeling a lady and making a killer of her. Dangerous Dan McGrew was pumped full of lead by the man from the creeks...
...extraordinary impression Paricutin has made on scientists springs from its long, brilliant run and the fact that it is the first volcano they have been able to watch from birth. Last week, fresh from an expedition to it, Geologist Paul O. McGrew of the Chicago Natural History Museum made a scientific report on Paricutin. Said he, among other things: "This tremendous display was beyond all description. ... On leaving this monster I felt as though I were leaving a World Series baseball game in the sixth inning with the score tied...
...look like coal miners, crushes roofs, kills trees, in some places is piled to rooftop height. Near the base of the crater, where the scientists, keeping an eye out for falling bombs, have been working, steam and gas pours from deep holes (fumeroles) with red-hot sides. Said Dr. McGrew: "This seemed like a glance into Hades." Though El Monstruo has spread terror among the Indian natives, birds and animals seem unperturbed, and spiders spin webs in the volcanic...
...TIME (June 12) for libeling a lady, and making a killer out of her. Dangerous Dan McGrew was "pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead" by the man from the creeks. The lady that's known as Lou pinched several pokes, but pulled no triggers...