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...says he. Charlie had just put up his watch when the blast came. The props in my place were twisted and blown down. We ran out into the slope and saw several men sprawled around . . . [and] helped them to the foot of the shaft. . . . Boulders as big as kitchen tables had been blown around. . . . Mine cars made of hardwood were blown into splinters. Tracks were twisted. . . . Seven...
...elaborate 95 ft. shaft of white marble, topped by a figure of Liberty with arms outstretched. Near by: the remains of Cornwallis' fortifications, and the carefully reconstructed French and American battle line of Rochambeau and Washington...
That brought a defense for Dick & friends from one Sheelagh Hardie: "Surely Dick, having emerged unscathed from fire and water, from the perilous lift-shaft and the homicidal ape, need fear little from this new assault. Surely, too, our children, having wrestled for one and a half hours with compound fractions or Latin verbs on top of a long day's schooling, are entitled to their 15 minutes' reward. Who grudges the bishop his detective novel or the businessman his nightly half-hour on the Times crossword? . . . Heaven postpone the day when our priggish offspring forsake such unsophisticated...
Going My Way. In Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, England, coal miner Charles Carter plunged 775 feet down a mine elevator shaft, landed on a descending cage, got off at the bottom of the shaft with only a broken...
Demobilized. In Fort Belvoir, Va., Army Sergeant Chester Conrad got back to his parked car after an hour's absence, could not budge it, found that someone had stolen the entire drive shaft...