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...Jack Horner (whom I may be supposed to impersonate for this occasion) puts in this thumb and pulls out a plum, with his well-known expression of egotistic self-satisfaction, little does he realize that his find will presently be shown to be a raisin or even a California prune...
Taking their Business School training in the best Pappy O'Daniel tradition, two lupine B-Schoolers have disguised their political ambitions under a sheepskin of comic strip humanitarianism in organizing their "Take the Wrinkles Out of Prune Face's Face" Committee, but so far their leveling best has been fruitless and they are no closer to their goal of election to the B-School Association...
...amateur Mickey Sullivans, Hermann E. Howard 3G.B, and Edward Mikrut 2G.B. have no doubts but that their polished campaign will be successful, but admit a serious handicap in that their drive has no such euphonious name as the "Lowell Mole Patrol." "But Prune Face is the most sensational character since the Mile was put away," they insist. They best they've thought of is "Make a Plum of Prune Face." In any case, they think they've found the golden apple, and Dick Tracy will make everything peachy...
...coveted prize for an evening of bridge was a prune or a piece of hard candy. . . . Many acrimonious debates took place. . . . The kitchen staff . . . threatened to resign because of criticism by some prisoners who had found fish and slightly moldy bread in the garbage can. The cooks said the fish was tainted and the bread too moldy. Their accusers said the fish had been retrieved to yield 19 excellent filets and the bread turned into a tasty dish of bread crumbs...
...hostile Senate and a suspicious House gang up on the two agencies, the direct and indirect losses cannot be quickly or easily recouped. It is difficult to resist the urge to prune a group whose members do not vote, but it may be wise to remember that NYA and CCC beneficiaries will not be minors forever...