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...lady in the pancake race in Olney, England ran 415 yards in "1 min. 7.2 sec." If she had gone 75 feet farther [at the same speed], she would have run the quarter mile in approximately 71½- seconds. Having in view her habiliments, sex, the skillet and other handicaps, this seems to me incredible...
Through this sprawling empire of brushes, mops and cleaners, the spirit of Stanley Beveridge, who believes that "the way to begin is to begin," gleams like a highly polished skillet. Beveridge began by selling stereopticon viewers, joined Fuller Brush as a door-to-door salesman in 1913. He was sales vice president when he quit in 1929 in the hope of working into the ownership of some likely business. He picked the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, but after two years there, took to the brush again. He rented the first floor of an old tobacco shed in Westfield, Mass., founded...
...Washington, which was warm but not yet sizzling, some congressional tempers sizzled last week like pork fat dropped in a skillet...
...bride" into their house: "I didn't think it would last." In Toledo, a housewife tried to explain her motive for clouting her husband over he head: "I was frying eggs and all of a sudden I wondered what would happen if I hit my husband with the skillet . . ." In Hollywood, Beverly Mitchell got a divorce after she charged that her husband left her alone with the company and went off to his room to play with his electric trains...
...Lick Skillet Dialogue. Cohn believes that most Southerners only faintly glimpse the inner lives of the Negroes by whom they are surrounded-Negroes who live apart in sections with such names as "Lick Skillet," "Spot Without a Wrinkle" and "Balance Jew" (where lots were bought on deferred payments and it took a long time to pay the balance due). Cohn has spent time with Negroes, learned how they feel, collected their stories of "hoodoo" and "conjure" episodes, and listened to them closely. An example...