Word: phils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well, Well, Phil Small." Burnham (pop. 643) is little more than a crossroads. Rain was pouring down when Small alighted from the bus in the dawn and dragged his bag over to the general store. Old Frank Cunningham, town jack-of-all-trades, was standing there. Said Cunningham: "Well, well, it's Phil Small." In Cunningham's battered coupe, Phil Small drove off cross-country through the rain...
...first Phil had to see Irene's three-weeks-old baby. He bent over the baby's crib and chuckled approvingly. "Damned if you ain't a bustin' rig," he said. "You're a bustin...
...Then Phil opened his barracks bag and pulled out a watch he had brought home for his father, a palm-sized pistol he had taken from the Mayor of Mannheim, a .38 automatic* he had taken from a German, a flashlight he had picked up. in Hitler's house at Berchtesgaden and a pile of dirty clothes, which he dumped in a corner...
...mother put two eggs and some potatoes in a frying pan and Phil talked about the war: about K rations and the time he rode a German motorcycle to get some ammunition. Mrs. Small turned the eggs over. "It don't seem hardly possible that you got over there and got back," she said. Pfc. Small sat on a stool and put his feet on the stove rail. "There's nothing to it," he explained. "They fire some shots at you and you lie down and fire some shots back...
...from bailing out the culprit pitchers, as Ottie hoped, the hitters have flopped too. Disaster is contagious. If Ott didn't know that 37-year-old Ernie Lombardi couldn't go on hitting home runs right & left, and that 38-year-old Phil Weintraub was a chronic slumper (and a strictly minor-league first baseman), he was whistling alone in the dark...