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James P. Derham was trained by his father to head the company, Enos J. to design bodies and Walter to tend to the shop. They do three or four big jobs a month, keep some 30 men busy in their stone and red-brick plant on Lancaster Pike. Most of their orders come from the automobile manufacturers, who get queer specifications from great and eccentric customers. At present the Derhams are designing a big grey limousine for Joseph Stalin, a duplicate in black for President Vincent of Haiti, a town car for Mrs. Henry B. du Pont and 15 open...
Merlyn's method of education is to put the Wart through more metamorphoses than a moth ever dreamed of. Ffft! The Wart is a fish, learning self-preservation from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories of evolution, a badger, learning about adaptation, an owl, learning how trees and stones talk (so slowly that they could be heard only if time passed at the rate of 30 years per minute...
...third compulsory dive is the familiar half-gainer with pike (jack-knife position), while the fourth is described as the "backward spring, forward dive. This flip-flop is the same as the regular back-jack-knife, but it omits the jack. Fifth dive, the "half-twist backward," is the fourth dive with a half-twist added, the diver entering the water facing the springboard...
Colorado's boyish Governor Teller Ammons bet Texas' boyish Governor James V. (for nothing) Allred that the University of Colorado would whip Texas' Rice Institute in a football game last January. The stakes: Pike's Peak v. Big Bend State Park on the Rio Grande. Rice won. So last week the two Governors motored to the top of Pike's Peak, which Governor Ammons thereupon handed over to Governor Allred. Governor Allred raised the Texas flag...
Norman Hobson Pike, Sioux City, lowa--Central High School...