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...audience. "Doctor, does it do any good in rheumatism to carry a potato in the pocket?" asked a listener last week. "A fatheaded question," replied the amiable doctor. "Now I ask you-do you really think that changes in the joints, deep-seated changes, can be effected by a spud in your jacket pocket...
Kathleen was dropped like a hot spud. In the midst of the gloom the Irish Times at last found a good word to say for the harp. To Irishmen good, black Guinness stout is "the wine of the country." Like Eire, Guinness uses the harp for its emblem. "They have 25 strings to their harps," wrote the Times columnist helpfully. "If you can count them, you can safely order another bottle...
BOSTON--Bullet Bobby Feller and a pair of efficient henchmen, Hal Newhouser and Spud Chandler, were the big three moundsmen who made the Amer- ican Leaguers 3 to 1 favorites for tomorrow's major league All-Star battle at Fenway Park...
...Canadian customs refused to let Spud take more than $50 out of the country. Nevertheless, he checked in at Manhattan's Park Central, toured hot spots (see cut) in search of a wife. He knew what he wanted: "She must not be too hefty, must be a genuine homemaker...
...after a couple of days of it, Spud had had enough. He didn't like the nightclubs nor the food, grumbled: "Ulcers- that's what I'd get, here." And he hadn't found a wife. Spud headed back to Yellowknife and "some nice, clean...