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...time short-time student propose Ralph Bunche. I know it's a forlorn hope. He is the most qualified by far of all the rumored appointees, but he'd hardly do for dinner at the Union League Club or the Harvard Club, and some alumni in Skunk Hollow. Mississippi might not like him. And, after all, that's what counts...
...marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...
...chief report at the Congress will be made by Georgy Malenkov, the tough, 50-year-old Politburocrat who has shot up through the party like a skunk cabbage (he weighs 250 Ibs.). In the past, the post of chief "reporter" has been held only by Lenin and Stalin. This signal honor is further evidence that Malenkov, son of an Orenburg Cossack and long regarded in the West as Stalin's most probable successor, is moving closer & closer to the top. Malenkov used to be Stalin's personal secretary, is said to have a phenomenal memory capable of recalling...
...most interesting thing about Andrea's case was that her sinuses were fully developed. "All our lives," he said, "we've been teaching that sinuses need aeration to develop completely. Apparently we were wrong." Said Andrea as she left for home: "Doctor, I want to smell a skunk...
Cinemactors with an urge to rough it build their homes and swimming pools amid the rocks and woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports...