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...senior proctor has warned undergraduates that Billy Graham must not be kidnaped when he arrives in Cambridge today." This stern warning in the varsity newspaper greeted Evangelist Graham when he arrived for a week-long revival that was certainly one of the strangest weeks ever known by Cambridge, whose attitude toward religion has long been intellectual, skeptical, or slightly pained...
...group of raiders, National Casket Co., biggest firm in its field, looked like a golden opportunity. As a company director pointed out: "A man could liquidate this company and make millions." Last week, at its annual meeting, National Casket fought off just such a raid in one of the strangest proxy wars in years. A month ago, a firm of Manhattan lawyers acting for an unidentified group suddenly offered to buy 32,000 shares of the company's 63,370 shares of common stock. The price: $48.50 per share, $8.50 more than the market price...
...advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high above the audience, flanked by brass instruments and brass-throated singers, Billy Sunday's sack suit, white waistcoat, wing collar and spats were put through some of the strangest performances ever enacted in the name of religion. The show awed even the reporters, who sat below the stage in a fine rain of perspiration from the evangelist's flailing arms and contorted brow...
...than a city dachshund (60 marks)." Still stranger cars are ready to go on sale. One is the egg-shaped Brütsch, named after Stuttgart Designer Egon Brütsch, which stands barely 3 ft. high, has four forward speeds but no reverse, does 67 miles per gallon. Strangest of all is the Dornier Delta, which looks like an old-fashioned electric toaster on wheels; the front and back sections hinge at the top to form doors. The front seats face frontward, the rear seats backward. Added attraction: the seat backs pull down, making a double...
What ailed Sir Andrew Aguecheek? Shakespeare made it clear that this improbable character in Twelfth Night had emotional problems and intellectual limitations: "I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world." Again: "Many do call me fool." But why? Surely not for the reason that Aguecheek himself offered: "I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm...