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...hand or another's? Suspicion falls on the teacher, who admits that he was the last to see her. His marriage begins to come apart, the girl's parents are torn by anxiety and self-accusation, her aunt rocks clean off her rocker, the whole town is talking malicious gossip. All at once the girl reappears, unharmed. Q.E.D.: small towns will be small towns...
Yeager was honored guest at a holiday luncheon sponsored by the club. Richard H. Amberg '33, president, made the presentation, and said: "We hope you will sit back and relax in this rocker the next time you get a call to play against Harvard...
...started to make money on the Zoomerangs, Tigrett felt as if he had hold of a boomerang. Taxes threatened to take more than half his profits. But he soon thought up a real taxeroo. He now forms a new company to handle each new toy he brings out (e.g., rocker toys, toy typewriters, the Charles Eames TOY), thus keeps his overall gross in the lowest corporate income-tax brackets. In addition to the Chicago parent, Tigrett Enterprises, Inc., he now runs seven toy companies...
...even in May the Cape can get warm enough for swimming at noon, and the water in Buzzards Bay and along the south shore is far warmer than any north of the Canal. Good beaches line almost the entire coastline except the steeper and rocker western end. The only decent beach on Buzzards Bay is Old Silver Beach. Of course, if one is after just plain swimming, a single rock will suffice...
...commissionership in 1938 and went to work recouping his fortune in private business, he continued to serve as unsalaried waterboy, choreboy and funnyman, first to Franklin Roosevelt, then to Harry Truman. In 1946 Truman asked him to serve on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. "I must have been off my rocker," George recalls. "I should have said, 'Why pick on me? Let's load this onto one of our enemies.'" Instead George Allen took the RFC appointment...