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Chris's father James Smith ran a blacksmith shop but seldom worked in it (he always said it was too much trouble holding the horse up). He liked guns better, and he could also scratch out a middling tune on the fiddle. Young Chris's closest companion was his older brother Hank, who regularly got one haircut a year (from his mother), boasted that he never changed his winter underwear in summer. The brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high...
...learned this song from a buddy down home," he drawled, motorcycle boot pounding in time to the strum-scratch arpeggio-scratch of his guitar. "A member of the Party. There's two kinds of party, you know. He was in the one with a capital...
Bigger & Better. Unlike Washington, California attracts few experienced rowers, and Ebright must build his men from scratch. Twice a year he looks over the registration line of incoming students, studying them like a chorus line director for height, posture, shoulder and leg muscles. "Usually they're flattered when I single them out, but some of the skeptics wonder what's the catch. Most of them never held an oar in their lives." He puts the selected candidates to work, builds their bodies, makes extensive use of movies in analyzing their form. Though crew is a spring sport, Ebright...
Vinyl Steel. U.S. Steel announced a vinyl-coated sheet steel intended to compete with stainless steel, anodized aluminum, porcelain-enameled steel, etc. in many furniture, appliance and automobile interior uses. The scratch-and stain-resistant vinyl coating withstands up to 30% stretching without separating, makes possible many new shaping operations. Price (on 24-gauge steel...
Sometimes it came deep in the earth where Borinage miners scratch out coal from overworked shafts in constant expectation of cave-ins, poison gas, flooding, fire and explosion. More often it came on the grey, slag-heaped surface as miners coughed out their lives. Emile Zola saw the Borinage in the 1880s and poured its horror into his powerful classic, Germinal. A few aged miners still remember the emaciated, stubble-bearded Dutch preacher named Vincent Van Gogh, who lived in one of their hovels, held services and sketched their bowed bodies with fever-palsied hands...