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...Land. In Cambridge, Ill., Farmer M. C. Samuelson complained to the Henry County state's attorney that after he left a signed blank check with his order for a pound of butter, Milkman Robert Fowler picked up the check, blithely made it out to himself...
...beaten the actuarial tables and reached the advanced old age of ten years. Since there was always more red ink than red blood in its circulation (peak figure: 10,-ooo), Horizon owed much of its vitality to two men: 1) Angel Peter Watson, the millionaire son of a milkman, who blotted up some $20,000 in losses; and 2) Editor Cyril Connolly, the intellectual son of an army officer, whose pudgy face once reminded a reporter of "a cross between Beethoven and Edward G. Robinson...
Perhaps it will help relationships." But the Jolly Waterman's vodka went unpoured. The Russians billeted there objected to the long hike to the Thames, and all moved in with the Pearces, who promptly left a note for the milkman to start delivering 40 pts. a day. At the table the crew fell to with precision, putting away great piles of sliced bread, steaming bowls of soup intended to approximate shchee (Russian cabbage soup), potatoes, tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, lamb, milk and soda water. On the river each day, they honed their choppy, elliptical rowing stroke to a fine edge...
...couldn't, and the other children laughed. "I swore I wouldn't learn to read and write, they wouldn't make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with...
...Known to countless admirers as the Dancer, to track habitues as the Big Grey, and to a smaller group of intimates as the Big 'Orse, he is the Saturday matinee idol of several million TV viewers, many of whom have not seen a horse in the flesh since the milkman switched to a truck...