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...baby in question is 'Chang, named after Po Chang, the great Zen master who said, "When you are tired, sleep." David Wincham, bearded and sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...
...Maury Maverick Jr., 40, son of the late rip-roaring New Deal Congressman, grandson of the rancher who let his cattle run unbranded (and thus made his name a world-known synonym for "stray"), has the support of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which means that he will probably get the maverick vote and little else. Warns Maverick: "If I don't get a lot of votes, we may not have another man willing to run this liberal in Texas for another ten years...
From then on it was all Penn. The Quakers picked up stray Crimson passes and drove through a weak sone to build up a half-time lead...
...Marines, McKean claims, were a tinhorn elite corps until World War I, when Correspondent Floyd Gibbons immortalized the 4th Marine Brigade in the Battle of Belleau Wood. Actually, Gibbons wrote his flaming story in advance, was wounded by a stray bullet that cost him his left eye, and never saw the battle he described so vividly. Nor did he mention the other 20,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Division, who fought just as-bravely as the 8,000 marines in the French forest. There is no question that the marines displayed surpassing gallantry at Belleau Wood...
Just a game, a stray adventure...