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Next afternoon a quartet opened the burial service by singing "God Will Take Care of Him." Father John Dillinger sat motionless in shirtsleeves. The Rev. Charles Fillmore, baptizer of Desperado Dillinger, preached: "I glory that this whole family has had faith in God ... a God of mercy ... so necessary in these days of vindictiveness and hatred." The quartet closed the service with: "We Say Good Night Down Here and Good Morning Up There...
...unsurpassed. Tarpon and sailfish also leap clear of the water, but not so high. And like those of tuna and marlin which thresh on the surface, their bodies, gills, fins and tails quiver in the air. The mako soars up stiff as a poker. For a moment it hangs motionless at 20 or 30 ft., blue of back, white of belly; its great pectoral fins spread wide. Then it flips over, falls back broadside to the sea with the splash of a wrecked airplane...
...papers till they nearly touched the table, then took them up again. Curmudgeonly Agrippa Prastberg lived on a raft, once a year ruined the Lagerlöfs' kitchen clock by "regulating"' it. When mischievous urchins daubed his floating home with paint, he showed his resentment by lying motionless in his punt. Doctor Piscator was a dangerous man to call in because he stayed so long. But he was a violent pro-German, and the Lagerlöfs' governess finally hit on the expedient of playing La Marseillaise...
...Motionless on a white-covered table, small and insignificant in the harsh brilliance of overhead lamps, a fox terrier listed in the laboratory records as Lazarus II lay last week in a gloomy old building on the University of California's campus. White-clad figures moved in & out of the glare, watching the creature they had asphyxiated with ether and nitrogen. Lazarus II's heart stopped beating and he no longer breathed. His shoe-button eyes were glazed. Lazarus II was dead...
...Japan's sun was about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn a dagger, the birthright of every Japanese girl to protect her purity...