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Fred Beck's trick is to belittle his merchandise. This is a sure-fire way to attract attention in Los Angeles. Typical Beck comment: "Our tomatoes are tasteless. We'll let you know when they are good again." Readers, who like his frankness, jam the 84-stall market from 9 to 6 every...
Eager students, trying to get in on the gravy, would call the Network before the tunes were played and then stall around, hoping to be able to guess the name. Others called just to have...
...feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
Though the backbone of opposition comes from a Southern minority within the college, many Northern students have taken the stand that introduction of the new plan would not be worth the disturbance it would cause. This, in itself, is not an argument but a weak, defensive stall. The problem of color discrimination will not vanish in time like a seven-year locust; instead its pressure will grow more and more as Negroes contribute to the preservation of the four freedoms. Princeton, far from being a pioneer, would be one of the last Northern universities to fall in line...
...Tony was very old (39). Most of his teeth were gone. It was no longer easy to get the molasses he needed for his diet. His front knees, broken in a film scene long ago, had grown so painfully stiff that someone had to be kept in his stall to help him to his feet. Since Tom Mix's death two years ago, there had been a vacant look in Tony's eye. He was scarcely aware of the veterinarian and taxidermist when they came in. A few seconds later he was no longer aware of anything...