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...began to founder. Nobody could have been more dismayed than Captain Pollard when he headed back to his stricken ship. "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" he cried. And from Mate Chase, bobbing with other survivors in a small boat, came the laconic answer: "We have been stove by a whale...
...Funster baseball team finished a strong third in the league. Led by former freshman captain Ron Peyton, who not only starred at bat, but pitched, the team included Tony Van Wye at first base, Cook at second, Bob Goldman at short, Mike Porder at third, George Buheler, catching, and Stove Lowey, Bill Dennis and Ted Rose in the outfield...
...Silex stove purchased by the Graduate Student Council, four Radcliffe girls brew the coffee and listen to the talk...
Down several notches but also effective is "The Boy Those Father Owned a Barn" by James Bucchler. The descriptive passages are sharply sensory; the reader smells the kitchen and warms to the stove. But to accomplish this, Bucchler loads every noun with adjectives, so that the few action passages are heavy and slow...
...most consumer items. But the biggest reason is that makers of appliances, cars and other civilian goods, although still scrambling for steel, are in such hot competition that few would dare pass on any added cost to their customers. Said a top executive of Cleveland's Perfection Stove Co.: "If steel prices advance and we don't increase our prices, we'll be faced with the job of trying to increase our volume in a difficult market. If we do raise prices, our volume will drop. Sales are not coming easy. Some day this whole thing could...