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Dick was brought up to become nothing less than a repository of Southern traditions and an exemplar of Southern character. Father was a Presbyterian and mother a Methodist, a strict disciplinarian who wielded the peachtree switch and leather strap on the children "until the blood came." Twice, before Dick was 13, the Bible was read aloud in family meetings-all the way through. Well Dick learned the old family stories-great-grandfather had owned a plantation and 35 or 40 slaves; grandfather had his cotton mill on Sweetwater Creek burned down and his slaves set free by Sherman...
...copilot went aft to try to pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum's 170 Ibs. and the massive press of air. They could see Flugum desperately trying to claw at the choking strap of his helmet. His lips time and time again mutely formed "Please, please, please...
...could "listen in style." One devotee left the Met $2,000 in her will "as a token of my sincere appreciation" for the broadcasts. (One year a third of the Met's million-dollar contributions came from radio listeners.) And a cowboy wrote that he liked to strap a radio to his saddle and gallop across the mesa to The Ride of the Valkyries...
...batteries it is bulkier and heavier (6½ oz.) than other transistor aids. Doctors do not object to this; they generally deplore the fad for smallness and concealment. Men wear it under their shirts, suspended from a harness around their necks; women can clip it to a reinforced shoulder strap...
Still single and unengaged, Britain's Princess Margaret celebrated her 26th birthday with her family at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, sat for her portrait in a one-strap evening gown of pink tulle embroidered with flowers and sequins...