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Amen to your belated recognition of baseball's Mister Most, Stan Musial [May 17]. But what mortal (even Grandpa Musial) could have played in 23 All-Star games after only 21 major-league seasons, unless he happened to be the incomparable, switch-hitting George Herman Ruth Mickey Mantle Mays Ty Cobb Gehrig...
After six months, with the cancer apparently eradicated, the surgeons hooked up Powell's intestines the way nature had arranged them originally, and he has had normal body functions ever since. As late as 1955, he played in Mister Roberts...
Americans take their viewing so seriously that more than one-fourth have their set repaired or replaced within four hours; about half get it going again within a day; and almost no one can bear to miss Mister Ed for more than a week...
...ability to rescue from the ordinary whatever humor, whatever unexpected might otherwise slip by into the hour-after-hour sameness of the past. He finds wisdom even in an encounter with a hitchhiker, praises the man's courage to live by bumming ("I take my hat off to you mister") and generally disconcerts the degenerate by taking him so seriously. "My father brought to conversations a cavernous capacity for caring that dismayed strangers," Peter relates. "They found themselves involved, willy-nilly, in a futile but urgent search for the truth...
Since there is no explicit New Testament authorization for it, the churches celebrate neither Easter nor Christmas, have neither bishops, presbyters nor any central authority. Each congregation is autonomous, and ministers govern with the help of lay elders, seldom let anyone call them anything but mister...