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...weeds, William Randolph Hearst's widow, almost a stranger to him for his last 29 years, walked slowly around the casket. As the family and friends departed, the curious lingered, plucked souvenirs from the hundreds of wreaths...
...soft-spoken stranger turned up in Winchester, Va. (pop. 13,600) one day last week, and paid a solemn call on Oscar Harry, superintendent of the Mt. Hebron Cemetery. His name, said the stranger, was J. G. Floyd; he was a South Carolina undertaker, and he had come to remove a body from Mr. Harry's keeping...
Sister Mary Aquin teaches English at Aquinas College in Missouri. "At first," she says, "I felt like a stranger in exile, with my apartment in Boston and only two other nuns on the campus. Sorry, I mean Yard. But everybody is so friendly and when I go to class people say "Hello, Sister, I'll walk you to Lamont...
Inured to stranger ones, Art Baker and his staff of 8 scarcely gave it a second thought. In their six months of operating You Asked for It (broadcast from Los Angeles' KTTV, fed to the nation a week later by Du Mont from New York), they have already shown, in response to requests: a one-armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain...
...stranger on the docks of Hong Kong might have wondered what all the fuss was about. It was only the little British frigate Amethyst, 1,470 tons, and looking a bit shabby at that. But as she hove into view that August day of 1949, the din of sirens, fireworks and lusty British cheers was a considered tribute. In spite of the heavy rain, a squadron of Spitfires repeatedly swooped low in salute. Only as the Amethyst neared her Royal Navy berth did it become plain that she was a shelled cripple. No sooner was she tied up than...