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...unless it was trying to conceal some mysterious gadget of its own (e.g., a radar countermeasure), was as baffled as everyone else. As might be expected, the phantom invasion touched off a whole new rash of flying-saucer stories. But if the men from Mars were really overhead, the oddest part of the whole strange story was the fact that among all the conflicting reports, no radar outside of a ten-mile radius in Washington reported seeing anything unusual at any time...
...groom brought in the gift, led it straight up to the ballroom dais for the Head to see. The gift, perhaps the oddest of 1952: a new horse & cart for the country sort of person who has devoted his life to boys...
...still retailing last week for as much as 60? for 5 Ibs., or 18 times the price on the tree. And though meat prices were moving down in the stockyards (lamb dropped nearly $2 a hundredweight from a month ago), they were still sky-high at the retail counter. Oddest situation of all was in potatoes, which two years ago were rotting on the ground for lack of buyers. Last week there was a thriving potato black market, due to the short potato crop last year. OPS officials found that housewives were forced...
...Oddest odd job in the University is probably that held by Norman Brown, winner of a recent B.U. News "oddest job" contest. Brown is currently occupied with cleaning out the small holes in the soundproof panelling in the Adams House dining hall--with toothpicks...
...when he died in 1947. Dr. Gibson went on living in what was now 'Lizzie Ayres's house. Within two months, the 71-year-old spinster made him her sole heir, named him co-executor of her estate-and thus set the scene for one of the oddest courtroom cases in Connecticut history...