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Yaaah! In San Jose, Calif., a woman left her dentist with her completely toothless mouth painted a bright purple, spotted a gentleman friend outside and playfully gave him a great big purple yawn, felt rather foolish when he turned out to be a total stranger...
Last winter, a group of high-school and college students who had banded together for informal bull sessions at the church decided to form a "prayer-cell." One discipline to which they bound themselves was to ask a stranger each day, "Do you believe in prayer?" One night when Pastor Burkhart was eating alone in a restaurant, he fell into conversation with the waitress and suddenly sprang his day's query on prayer. "Well, big boy," she said, visibly shaken, "I must say that's the most unusual approach I've ever heard...
...Friends. Bob Herberger was no stranger to Butler Bros. His father has been a Butler customer for all the 58 years he has run a store in Osakis, Minn. Bob, who was born over the store and clerked in it during his school years, worked for Butler's Minneapolis house and became a Butler customer himself in 1927 when, at 22, he opened his own store in St. Cloud, Minn...
Opposing captains of the two pickup teams Chip Gannon and Bucky Harrison, are now busy lining up their men for the intra-college series which will open Monday. Harrison, nicknamed the "Toe" for his place kicking on the JV's and Varsity, is no stranger to his opposite number Gannon, the Crimson's star half-back of last season...
...with Yorkshire pudding, mixed vegetables, coffee, before the confusion* began to clear a little. A Congressman noticed a tiny typewritten card almost hidden by the roses. He nudged the guest on his left. The nudging passed around the table like a ripple. The luncheon was in honor of the stranger, Sir Frederick Bain, no G-man, but president of the Federation of British Industries, which represents about 80% of British manufacturing...