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Heavens Above! bears the hallmark of the Boulting Brothers, whose I'm All Right, Jack gave Sellers his alltime juiciest part. It is a collage of comic bits pasted together with satire: Sellers walking into an open grave in a rainstorm, Sellers munching dog biscuits along with his sherry, a train compartment full of clerics looking startled when "the last supper" is announced in the dining car ahead...
Those that remain today seem to be concentrated in 65 acres of land set in the piney woods 3½ miles from Murfreesboro (pop. 1,100). The field first became prominent in 1906 when a young guide, John Wesley Huddleston, picked up a glittering pebble after a rainstorm. When a Little Rock jeweler pronounced it a genuine high-quality diamond, a rush of buggy-borne diggers, many of them women in ground-sweeping skirts, swarmed into Murfreesboro. Few of them found diamonds, and most of them soon went home. But ever since then, the diggings have been a steady tourist...
...docks at the M.I.T. sailing pavilion went under water during Cambridge's worst rainstorm in seven years. Ten dinghies flipped over as the wind whipped up monstrous waves on the Charles. But despite the foul weather, an outstanding Crimson sailing team swept over seven other Ivy League crews to win the first Ivy League Dinghy Championship...
...home. Lugging his huge briefcase (loaded, it weighs 35 Ibs. -more than the valise with his clothing) aboard the plane, he studies as he flies. But the minute he touches foot on Illinois soil, he shows that he has not lost his old touch. In Deerfield, a rainstorm scattered his audience. "Just a minute, folks," he commanded. "If I can stand up here and get wet talking, you can stay here and get wet listening. I've got another speech to make this afternoon, and my suit is going to be soggy and wet on that long plane ride...
...sudden rainstorm, unusual for the area at this time of year, forced cancellation yesterday of the varsity baseball game against Northeastern, rescheduled for May 2, and the varsity golf match...