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They Dream of Soap. Day & night, the public was raped with the good, simple Evans slogan: "Love that soap!" "It's my favorite bar!" Evans told Vic: "You got to eat, drink, sleep, and yes, by God, dream soap. Check?" "Check!" screamed back his underlings in desperate unison. Any one who failed to scream back "Check!" went out on his ear, Partner Kim told Vic. But Author Wakeman's main story is of how Vic gave Old Man Evans as good as he got. It is also the story of how Vic, despite years of cynicism and success...
...night Monica's governess happened to peep into the darkened nursery. She stifled a scream and fainted dead away. Something "disjointed, hoppety, hideous" was stalking across Monica...
...Berlin, dress designers put on a fashion show, complete with crazy spring hats. Wrote the Socialist paper Das Volk: "One year ago . . . sirens used to scream and bombs brought death. . . . Now it is over. . . . Reconstruction work in our destroyed Germany will advance...
...break into Ave Maria. Something like the new nonsense song, One-zy, Two-zy I Love You-zy, is more his style. He sometimes sings Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life to win the old folks, but in general he's a bobby-soxer's man, who gets screamed at. Says he: "If you don't like it you wouldn't be human. If they stopped you'd wonder what the hell happened. I'd like it a lot better if they'd give you a chance to do what you're supposed...
...tail end, in 59th place out of 60 crews (Trinity Seventh was 60th). When Corpus' Third, King's Third, and Saint Catharine's Fourth, the other tail-enders, got snarled in each other's oars, the coaches began firing pistol shots and Connie began to scream. Her G.I.s, who took her shrieks for exhortations, plowed ahead-and neatly split Saint Catharine's shell in two. Tactful judges looked the other way, marked Bull as "rowed over" (neither bumped nor bumping). At the end of four days' racing, Bull was still 59th...