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...that's O.K.-now for old 'Stinks' "), or merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On nature walks, she likes to collect poisonous mushrooms ("Chuck those out-they're harmless"), would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic; but occasionally she must pay for her crimes by writing lines ("I must not smoke cigars during prayers. I must not smoke cigars during...
...National Executive Committee, whose job it is to settle on the resolutions to be laid before the party conference. Instead of watering down the fierce anti-Americanism of the Bevanite proposals (as he has often done in the past). Attlee let them stand. The council adopted a foreign policy plank which recommended that: The Peking Communists should be recognized as "the effective" government of China and admitted to the U.N. (as the Tories also advocate), Nationalist Formosa should be "neutralized," German rearmament should be postponed until the West makes further effort at a four-power German settlement...
...Plank. The man most responsible for the explosive change was Harry Guy Bartholomew, "brilliant, truculent, mercurial, [whose] normal means of communication with his staff was the hand grenade; if urgent, the thunderbolt." "Bart," who habitually pushed his Rolls-Royce at 70 m.p.h., drove his staff just as hard. Prankishly, he liked to take visitors on a tour of the city room, bang an editor over the head with an eight-foot plank, then rock with laughter when his guests found that the plank was made of feather-light balsa wood. On occasion, the Mirror used the slogan, "All the News...
Elegance on a Plank. Perhaps the most intrepid of the Perth survivors was Engineer Lieut. Frank Gillan. When the second torpedo hit and Perth keeled over, he was trapped far below decks. Only perfect presence of mind and the lucky chance that his Mae West was only half-inflated saved him. As the water rose in the sinking hull. Gillan calmly let himself float upward with it through the pitch-dark passages of the ship, the air in his life jacket buoying him gently, but not so much as to force him against the overhead, where he could not maneuver...
...shipmates went swirling down Sunda Strait toward the Indian Ocean through waters slick with oil and glaring in the searchlights of the triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...