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Actually, if Vida were to continue at his present torrid pace, he would amass more than 40 wins. But not even Vida is that confident. Every time he pitches he superstitiously puts two dimes into his pocket to "represent the hope of 20 wins." By that standard, he still seems a little cheap. At the very least, Vida Blue promises to be a two-bit pitcher...
...service and dispatching them to TV stations. The work, up to 18 hours a day for the indefatigable Humbard, pays off. It has been 19 years since Rex dropped out of his parents' traveling revival troupe to start his own church in Akron with $65 in his pocket. Again and again he has mortgaged the cathedral to buy more television time; eventually listeners become happy contributors. So far in 1971, mail contributions have totaled more than $1,600,000, but air time alone in the same period cost $1,937,000. Humbard's church also has business interests...
Hughes has succeeded in helping many of his young charges, but failed with others. One boy, after attempting suicide at the age of 13, was killed in an accident two years later. In his pocket his friends found a one-piaster note on which he had written "How many tears, how many drops of sweat?" Of the 200 kids to whom Hughes has given refuge in the past year, no fewer than 15 have committed suicide...
...from high school, my virginity, my square man who wouldn't screw, the articles my grandmother cut out of Reader's Digest, tears that came and wouldn't go for days on end, the parents I never had, and my black patent pocket book and patent heels with a black patent belt to match the heels and the pocket book. This three-piece patent suit I had bought at Saks Fifth Avenue for the history teacher I would adore, and for dates at the Ritz, but the remaining items I would learn to feed to the Charles. Indeed, why else...
...worked many a year and not earned a nickel." He gave up dairy farming years ago because that requires extra hands, and hands cost goodly sums of hard cash. "When you're a farmer," his son Dick points out, "you never have any money in your pocket until you retire and sell out, because it's all invested. We get paid every few months, while a hired man would have to be paid every week and earn as much as he would in industry." Erv readily admits that sons are as important as they ever were in working...