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Mayonnaise on Pears. In 1938, the Trapps arrived in the U.S. with $4 in pocket and a concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...
...This is the last of my columns," he wrote. "A column is heady stuff for the ego. The heckling of bigots is the best sport this earth affords. . . . And it is an advantage to a man of intellectual choler to have ... a weekly oblong where he can divest himself of the indignation occasioned by the antics of his brother-imbeciles. But all this, I yield, and gladly. For my column has been a failure...
...universe is oblong...
...story of the crisis was shaped by day-to-day encounters of officers who often disliked each other, by the day-to-day problems and incompatibilities of routine occupation business. Last fortnight, Berlin's Kommandatura met to transact some of that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter at his side. Around the room...
...knows, the first published) was taken with radioactive materials formed by the explosion of an atomic bomb. It shows a woman's rayon purse stuffed with feminine necessaries: keys, coins, a bobby pin and a bottle of nail polish. The metal clasp is clearly visible. The semi-transparent oblong below is a package of chewing gum. The picture was made by placing the purse on a sheet of ordinary photographic film. On top of the purse were placed pieces of twisted steel and several bits of fused earth from the site of the famous bomb test in New Mexico...