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Chernus churns up the buying fever with a score chart posted in his sales office. Each cream-colored pin in the chart stands for a house being looked over, each red pin for a house sold-and it tells every waverer at a glance that he is wavering against time. "Our greatest sales," Chernus says, "are between 2 and 4 in the afternoon when the crowds are thickest" (and when the score chart bristles with pins...
...Strange & the Profane. But such tributes cannot define De la Mare's quality nor pin his shoulders to a critical mat. In contemporary literature no figure is more elusive. Even De la Mare's best friends sometimes think of him as a creature they may have imagined, and he himself long ago made it clear that in imagination he has his breath and being...
...last hole of the tourney, he flubbed a shot from a bunker-just like a Sunday duffer. But on the next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...
...human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly to the men in the stalls, were the pretty legs and graceful dancing of the princess, redhaired Ballerina Moira Shearer, who has become the pin-up girl of British ballet...
Comrade Molotov, the Mayor of Broadway, was the kind of soldier who could make an officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky...