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...charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers her best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected and tired. --from the May 9, 1947, CRIMSON
...balloon man with one balloon left was trying to sell it to a man with a baby on his shoulders. The baby was trying to eat an ice-cream sandwich. The red balloon moved down the hill over the balloon man. Two runners moved up the steep hill. Both looked ready to quit. The first one grimaced showing all his teeth, and holding his stomach. The checks of the second billowed and flattened as he breathed. His hands were fists, his feet landed heavily on the asphalt. Across the road, a little girl let go of her balloon...
...gone only a hundred yards or so when [my horse] Kendall (for a reason which will never be known) reared and whirled, his front feet pawing the steep slope ... I ended on a narrow ledge lying on my stomach, uninjured. I started to rise. I glanced up. I looked into the face of an avalanche. Kendall had slipped, and fallen, too ... rolling down over the same thirty precipitous yards I had traversed . . . Sixteen hundred pounds of solid horseflesh rolled me flat. I could hear my own bones break in a sickening crescendo ... I lay paralyzed with pain-twenty-three...
...before the Dairy Industries Supply Association, emphasized that the trend to a "self-sustaining economy" is still in progress. Before it is over, he said, production will drop and unemployment will rise. But the dip in unemployment and production will not come until late 1950, and will not be steep, he predicted...
Radioman Trippodi hung in his chute in excruciating pain. He had come down in a treetop near the peak of a steep, 4OO-ft. incline. Trying to unbuckle his harness, he slipped. His foot caught in the leg strap and he had hung head down, helpless. Next morning two of the flyers found him still hanging there. They cut him free, wrapped him in his parachute, and put him in a bed of spruce boughs; but they themselves were too weak to get him down the cliff...