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...without, so far as I am aware, warning anyone in advance. One thing is certain. The subsequent [Nazi] seizure of Prague was a bitter blow to Mr. Chamberlain . . . Whenever Hitler's name was mentioned after March 17, the Prime Minister looked as if he had swallowed a bad oyster...
Change Is Decay. To the Babylonians, Egyptians and Hebrews, the world was an oyster, water below, water above (it seeped through the upper dome as rain), with the earth as snug and central as a pearl. But between the 6th and 3rd centuries B.C., the Greeks reached certain conclusions that were to be ignored for the next 2,000 years, e.g., that the earth rotated on its axis, that the sun was the center of the universe...
...When I see a motorboat coming," says one shaky sailor from Baltimore, "I say to myself, I am a sailboat; I have the right of way. Then I get the hell out of there." Investment Banker Julian K. Roosevelt (of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) recalls the day on Long Island Sound when a power boat pulled alongside his father's 60-ft. schooner Mistress. The intruder bellowed: "Hey, Mac! Which way to port Jefferson?" Says Roosevelt with deep satisfaction: "I answered him in his own way and said, 'First turn to your right, Mac!'" Harrumphs a fellow...
...course the plucky Gothamites face the problem of getting supplies. Rockefeller presumably will not let food come into the city via upstate and may even blockade the port with Oyster Bay launches...
...tide. It has not missed an edition since. Supported by the Quemoy Military Defense Command, the seven-days-a-week paper reserves most of its run-5,500 copies-for free distribution to troops, sells the balance (at 1? a copy, 25? a month) to villagers in Quemoy, oyster fishermen in North Mountain, sweet potato and millet farmers in South Mountain. About $250 in monthly advertising revenue comes from Formosa merchants eager to fill front-line mail orders...