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"He talked to me quite a little about his will and was impatient because I could not help him. He seemed to think because I had graduated from college I should be able to tell him just where to make 20 or 30 million do the best work for education...
Near Menominee, Mich., one Oscar Lebouf sighted through underbrush, squeezed his rifle-trigger, went crashing through the bushes after his bullet. Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his...
Two hours later the cruiser screen of the Atlantic fleet was sighted, tearing through the spume at 20 knots. As the fleet deployed into line of battle canvas targets were towed into place. Twenty 15-inch guns boomed simultaneously-at a cost for this single broadside of roughly $30,000...
Off Norfolk, Va., one Walter Winner, fisherman, sighted a sea turtle basking on the surface of the ocean; silenced his motorboat, slipped up behind, leaped to the turtle's shell, seized its head to keep it from diving, rode upon its back until, tired, it could be trussed, towed...
It is a comedy, in three acts and seven scenes, all of which are devoted to the telling of a not-unusual story. Charley Bemis came to New York from the country and gradually worked his way up to a senior clerkship, a situation whereby he has been enabled to...