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...Worker man was asking a question, and the President thought he ought to know. Another annoyance was the reporters' habit, in unlimbering their fountain pens, of splattering ink on the President's prized, deep-piled green rug. Several months ago, someone emptied a whole penful of ink smack on the rug's presidential seal...
...sort of ad that would make any schoolteacher blink, yet there it was, smack in the middle of the Philadelphia school system's spring catalogue of in-service courses for teachers. "Are you interested in how you look . . .? Would you care to glimpse some of the newest fashions in clothes? Of hair styles becoming to different types . . .? Does your voice have that quality that makes pupils want to listen...
...course of the jamboree, 41 people were bitten by animals or human beings. A howling burglar was caught after he had run from the scene of his crime smack into a beehive. One policeman shot his wife in the leg and was himself knifed by another man. Another cop had his skull bashed by a man he had just saved from drowning...
Artist Salvador Dali, 45, showed up in Manhattan with one of bis newest and oddest creations: a larger-than-life-sized, jewel-studded eye, with one ruby teardrop forming in the corner. The proper place for a lady to wear this surrealist bauble, he explained, was smack on her forehead, just above and between her real eyes...
...Said Insomniac Cripps: "When in the stillness of the night we face the tremendous dangers of the modern world, let us listen for the still small voice of God which can instill courage, calm and strength into our hearts . . . Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow I die . . . may smack of boldness and bravado, but it is singularly unconvincing in the still small hours of the night...