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...opened his eyes. It was his roommate and he was telling Vag that he had 20 minutes to get to class. Vag nodded and slowly got out of bed. He walked over to the desk and got a pencil, then sat down on the edge of his bed, and picked up his calendar of "Things To Do Today" and made another note. It said: "Write apology letter to Rita...
...doctors to lift his newborn daughter Claire, now two years old. But he kept a microscope near his bed and worked on his meson research whenever he had enough strength. During his final hours under an oxygen tent, knowing that death would no longer be denied, he worked with pencil and notebook, painfully gleaning his brain while he still had time for last bits of knowledge to pass along to the living. Last week at Vallejo, his work all but done, Dr. Gardner laid down his notebook and died...
...come-on's were mimeographed sheets posted on the bulletin boards of Austin and Harkness Halls. They were marked at the top in red pencil: "All Harvard Men Invited...
...next book on the pile was thin and green, with an H. carefully blacked in with pencil on the front. French Grammar for the College Student. He flipped open the cover; somebody had written "Ou est le W. C.?" inside. Pretty good course, that had been. Neat guys--real jokers. That was the kind of thing you probably remembered about College. He weighed the book in his hand; it was small and handy, printed on exceptionally light paper. It wouldn't really take up too much space. Vag held the book a minute more, and then let it slip back...
...last month, Harry Truman sat down and tackled the accumulation of personal mail that he always handles himself. No advisers were with him. The only other person in his office was his quiet and devoted personal secretary, Miss Rose Conway. The presidential voice droned through the dictation, the Conway pencil traced its neat shorthand-until Mr. Truman's eyes fell on a letter from California's Republican Congressman Gordon L. McDonough...