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...shadows," which she dispells by drinking "fizzy water," she is usually hard as nails, nagging her daughter Molly with contempt and loathing people in general. Her father, it seems, didn't love her. When she at last decides that the needs Molly and reveals herself as no pillar of strength, Molly gives her a healthy cuff and sets off for St. Louis...
...turbulent air-probably because of engine or propeller trouble. It nosed down and glided full into a "stick" of floating paratroopers from the plane ahead. Dented and damaged by the impact of their bodies, it slid down in a long death dive and vanished behind the pine tops. A pillar of smoke rose in the distance. Ten dead men came down from the sky. Some, whose chutes had been chopped up, plummeted, some floated as casually as the living. Living jumpers from Plane No. 29 floated down, too; there had been 44 men -40 paratroopers and four Air Force crew...
Hygrade was a pioneer in selling pre-packaged meats through delicatessens. Slotkin also pushed processed, ready-to-eat meats, today the main pillar of Hygrade's business. In his zeal to spread such time-saving benefits to every housewife, Slotkin was hampered by Hygrade's lack of outlets west of Chicago. Thus when Kingan's management split hopelessly over operating policies (TIME, March 3, 1952), he spotted a bargain. A year ago, Kingan's owners were glad to take Hygrade's offer of $6,500,000 for 94.1% of Kingan's stock...
...plenty of talent, but he was never a Louis Armstrong, a King Oliver or even a Bunk Johnson. Those performers had jet flights of imagination as they improvised on their horns. Papa is a groundling, but for those who accept him as such, he remains a steady, sturdy pillar...
...bright, cheery comments on life under Stalinism, it takes a positive effort of will to recall that this is the same country of concentration camps and secret police terror reported by other observers . . . [Salisbury] has been giving a startling practical demonstration of how to use America's sturdiest pillar of journalistic respectability as a transmission belt for the official Soviet propaganda line...