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Floating Ancestors. One grisly-funny story tells of Great-Grandfather Thomas Ordway, blinded at Shiloh, who dug up all the Ordway graves in Tennessee and loaded headstones, kegs of bones, and the living members of his family together in an ox-drawn wagon to come to Texas-and of how the wagon was flooded crossing the Red River, sending the tombstones to the bottom while the kegs floated off downstream. Most remarkable of all is the story of Sam Ordway himself and his half-year search throughout Texas for his little son Ned who was stolen away by a neighbor...
Princeton Senior Michael E. Smith, son of a fiber and burlap importer and no kin to the other Michael Smith, was selected as a Rhodes scholar at Ox ford for the next two years. Smith, like his namesake, had attended Darien public schools. He went on to the Hill School and Princeton, where he was president of his class three years running, and is now chairman of the Undergraduate Council. Smith is majoring in English and was first-string center on Princeton's undefeated football team...
...upon us." Lacking the glamour or flashy attraction of the piano and violin, the cello has been a neglected child in the family of strings. France's Jean Louis Duport revolutionized playing techniques in the late 1700s, an achievement that prompted Voltaire to exclaim: "A miracle! An ox has been changed into a nightingale...
...brand-new and the proud property of a nightclub waiter named Heinz ("Harry the Ox") Hopp. When Muller expropriated the coat for himself, Hopp got hopping mad, pulled a gun on Paulie and was rewarded for his temerity with a beating that put him in the hospital for a month. It was enough to turn Harry the Ox into Harry the Fink: he provided the police with sufficient evidence against Muller and the Black Gang to bring them to trial. Last week a motley audience of shills, pimps, whores, strippers and bullyboys gathered in Hamburg's dingy criminal court...
...union message, and he had been selected by his church's 81 bishops to write and present it in their name. The right man, in this case, was in the right pulpit, for the Bishop of Los Angeles has assumed the mantle worn by the late G. Bromley Ox-nam as unofficial spokesman for Methodism to the rest of the U.S. Nobody gave Kennedy the job, and nobody could. Democratic Methodism has neither Pope nor primate; the presidency of the Council of Bishops-an office held by Kennedy in 1960 and currently by New York's Lloyd Wicke...