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...half tomboy and half troll, she roars and soars ahead with her magically rusty vocal cords, her magically uncombed look, her meltable rock-candy hardness, now executing a slow, sneakered, ragamuffin saraband, now after a Denver fiasco ripping into an exuberant barefoot dance, now smashing a chair over a stranger's head, now reacting in Paris to her first taste of snails: "With that sauce, you could eat erasers." Thanks to her, Molly is dripping but undrowned...
Plunge into Bathos. Nixon is something of a fatalist and no stranger to tight spots. No spot could be tighter than the tense moment in the 1952 campaign when he was caught in the uproar over a Nixon trust fund and found not only Democrats but Dwight Eisenhower's lieutenants ready to throw him off the ticket. Completely on his own, he delivered his well-remembered nationwide TV speech in which he laid bare his personal finances and mentioned, in a plunge into bathos, that the only gift he ever had accepted was the little dog Checkers. The Checkers...
...looking for. Finally he spotted an old fisherman in rubber boots and battered hat. "I say. my man," he called, "if you tell me where I can find Winslow Homer. I have a quarter for you." "Where's your quarter?" snapped the old fisherman, and the stranger quickly handed one over. The fisherman took it, carefully dropped it into his pocket, and without so much as a thank-you said, "I am Winslow Homer...
Unaware of his legal rights, Olson stayed in jail for twelve days without realizing that he could get out by paying $300 bail. Then to his rescue came Attorney Clair Hoehn, president of the school board in Gladstone, 40 miles from Thompson. "Ridiculous," said Hoehn, after reading The Stranger himself. "This boy just wanted his students to have some different reading than 'Run, Dick...
Attorney Hoehn soon discovered something even more ridiculous: Justice of the Peace Howard Magoon jailed Teacher Olson under an obscenity law that Michigan repealed in 1957. Last week Circuit Court Judge George Baldwin threw out Olson's conviction. Any "lurid remarks" in The Stranger, ruled Baldwin, are "minor" compared to many in the Bible. But former Teacher Olson is still vainly trying to find a job of any kind in Michigan's Upper Peninsula...