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Others, more or less lucky, may leave the field feet-first with their souvenir of the game firmly imbedded in their scalp. Fir though they be, falling goal post timbers have put more than one rejoicing scholar out of the weekend picture...
...further step backward when the villagers demand that Uncle Sam build them a teahouse instead of a schoolhouse. Fisby tactfully gives in, and then to give the people enough money to trade at the teahouse, sort of a rustic Hayes-Bick, he tries to establish them in the souvenir business. The troops won't take the trinkets, and the village is forced to resort to the sale of home-brewed, week-old brandy to the island officers' clubs. The brandy business booms and little Tobiki thrives. A teahouse is built. This set, designed by Peter Larkin, is beautifully done...
...appealing his famed conviction on morals charges, the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary got half of its several-hundred-thousand-dollar property, gathered 200 loyal followers and established a new colony, where she awaited the millennium by supervising the colony's dairy farms and souvenir shops...
Next day, armed with another souvenir (a Malayan parang, a vicious native knife which a British sergeant had given him), the traveler from Illinois logged a misadventure. Flying over the jungle near Kuala Lumpur, his helicopter caught fire and made a forced landing in a paddyfield. Stepping out unharmed into knee-deep mud, Stevenson cracked: "Where is my parang? I want to kill a bandit." At week's end, Stevenson was ready to take off for Bangkok, with stops at Rangoon, New Delhi and Karachi before heading on to the Middle East...
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who wanted to see "a baseball match" during his current U.S. visit, watched a workout game between West Point's first-and second-string teams. Coach Paul Amen gave the old cricketer a few baseball pointers and a souvenir ball...