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...choice of All's Well raises a raft of problems (some of them insoluble). One of these is of long standing, and arises from the publication of Shakespeare's collected plays by his fellow-actors John Heminges and Henry Condell in the celebrated First Folio of 1623. In this volume the publishers divided the plays into "comedies," "histories," and "tragedies"--a categorization that has perdured far beyond its usefulness. A considerable number of the plays either do not fit in any of the three divisions or do not belong in the one assigned them in the Folio; All's Well...
Despite a raft of injuries and vicious Yale defense, an improved Crimson rugby team edged the Elis 8 to 6 in New Haven Saturday, in an effort to salvage a disappointing season...
...they are suddenly out of a job, they arrive at a garage to borrow a friend's car just in time to witness a painfully accurate re-creation of the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. With Curtis and Lemmon cowering in a corner, Mobster George Raft and his henchmen line seven men against the wall and machine-gun them dead...
Such confinement and automation of animals is possible and profitable because of a raft of new chemical discoveries. In 1948 Purdue's Dr. Andrews discovered how to put tiny pellets of stilbestrol, a synthetic female sex hormone, under the skins of cattle and sheep to make them gain weight 15% faster. Today 80% of the nation's beef cattle get stilbestrol. This helps farmers produce an estimated billion pounds more meat than they could have got for the same amount of feed without stilbestrol...
Another yarn, Call of the Sea, tells of a banquet and ball given by the nautical-minded British ambassador on a log raft in Belgrade's Sava River. It is a superb affair until the raft slips its moorings and makes a break for the Danube. Passing under Belgrade castle, the soused "Flower of European Diplomacy" is spotted by Comrade-Gunner Popovic, who takes the diplomats for hostile Czech paratroopers. Hoping to distinguish himself, possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon...