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...Pip-Squeak Emblem. Built by the Spanish and captured by Admiral Dewey, the ship looks more like a gingerbread house on a raft than a U.S. gunboat. She does not even have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...
Bill Vaughan, a latecomer to the trade, became a paragrapher by chance. After three years of newspapering in Springfield, Mo., he joined the editorial staff of the Star in 1939, worked at various assignments until the paper's resident paragrapher. the late Clad H. ("Pip") Thompson, retired in 1946. Vaughan replaced Pip as custodian of "Starbeams," a column of paragraphs that has stuck to the Star's editorial page since the paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News...
...practical prelates, and sell the sites. At city prices of close to $300 a square foot, this would provide a fabulous windfall with which to build new churches in the suburbs, raise clerical salaries and finance overseas missions. The mere thought of such desecration gave antiquarian Anglicans the pip: the City's churches-especially Wren's-were national treasures, they cried. The war damage should be repaired, and the churches could be turned into museums to remind traipsing tourists and native agnostics of the Church of England's ancient glory...
...does that pip-squeak think he is?" raged Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse about John F. Kennedy to friends on the Senate floor. What angered Morse was that Kennedy had failed to reverse a recent order by the Eisenhower Administration that shifted a regional office of the Post Office Department from Portland to rival Seattle without first consulting him. "Kennedy is not going to get my support until I get some satisfaction," said Morse. Soon after. Morse postponed Education and Labor Committee hearings on a Kennedy-backed education bill...
...Preens & Pip-Squeaks. As is customary, lighting technicians and bodice padders mumbled gratitude to their angel mothers and all the wonderful, wonderful people in the cast. As usual, the songs were mediocre and sung badly. And as usual, the M.C.-Bob Hope this time brisk, professional and apparently a little bored- was unable to tell enough jokes to bring to life the stupefying parade of pretty, smiling people introducing other pretty, smiling people...