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...what sort of rudeness moved TIME to call PM "hyperthyroid" and refer to its "characteristic shrillness" in the very same press review, despite your admission that PM's reporter "Beichman was right?" Is it fair and in good taste to sling muddy insinuations at another publication without provocation...
Finn MacCool was first & foremost a fighter (he killed Aillin, a goblin who was annoying Ireland) but he also took a little exercise for fun. He could outrun a hare or stag, and he could wing a wild duck with the first stone from his sling. He could jump the width of Ireland (115 miles) in three "leps." Finn once licked two hurling teams singlehanded. They ganged up on him (as hurling players still do) but he killed seven and chased the rest away. Next day he found them swimming. They dared him to come in. Finn drowned them...
...riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling it hard and sling it often and pick up His money. Then He could dress His self proper and get a car for His self, and look the part, so as no bride, posh or not, would scream if he tried to chat...
...says the WAVES aren't a "fighting and sea-going crew" (as per our favorite marching song)?. Ask the unlucky second baseman of the NSCS faculty team why he is going around with a sling and a splint. Battle-scarred also is Miss Marian Read, who literally overcame all obstacles to become "safe at second" by the decision of a right good ump at the bases, Lt. Comdr. Hesser, Executive Officer of the School...
Alas, the Washington ensign today carries his brief case in his left hand. The gallant right arm is in a sling...