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...family of 1,700 could eat-but not drink-and make merry. Leathery Robert McLean, president of the Bulletin and of the A.P., would make a little speech. And rays from the star Algol, which take 100 light years to reach Philadelphia, would trip the switch that lighted the six-foot birthday cake...
...Camp Commander Colonel Suga, who had read and liked her Borneo book. When the first Allied planes came over Kuching, most of the prisoners were too weak to feel joy. Mrs. Keith, always thin, had lost 30 lbs. when the Australian ground troops took Kuching without a fight. Her six-foot husband came out weighing...
...jokesmith of his day is a six-foot gag-&-stunt machine named Milton Berle (rhymes with churl). His 38-year-old brain is a tight-packed file of some 50,000 jokes and japes. With never-miss efficiency, Berle can dip into these mental files, yank out just the gag he wants when he wants it. The "Thief of Badgags" (as spiteful rivals call him), who has probably lured more people into nightclubs than any performer alive, is now making his sixth attempt in 18 years to lure listeners to their radios with a Berle show...
Personal Taste. In Detroit, a judge said it was all right- legally- if Mrs. Grayce Milton wanted to do her shopping with Nokomis, a six-foot pet king snake, coiled around her body...
Emerging from Newark's Barringer High School one afternoon last week, lanky, six-foot Freshman George Allen, 15, saw that he might miss his bus. Sprinting across the icy sidewalk, he fell sprawling on his face, picked himself up, hopped aboard just in time. Then he realized that a metal pencil he had carried in his shirt pocket had stabbed him in the chest, straight toward the heart...