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...talent for getting to the core of abstruse subjects made him one of the leading lights of the Shop Club, a once-a-month supper club founded (to talk shop) in 1921 by Conant and a group of his faculty friends and their wives. Conant was a good listener and a quick questioner, especially on history, literature and philosophy. He once remarked to an associate who was studying 17th Century history: "I sometimes wonder if our two subjects aren't both the same, when you get high enough into them...
French Canadians revised the evening routine: cows were milked early, supper served late. Quebec's most popular radio serial, Un Homme et Son Péché (A Man and His Sin), was back...
...Rupert District of South Georgia's Taylor County, Macie Snipes was the only Negro to vote. The day after election four white men called him out from supper. Macie Snipes staggered back into the house with blood gushing from the bullet wounds in his belly. A coroner's jury solemnly reported that he had been killed by one of his visitors in self defense...
...search narrowed down to a member of the Ladies' Aid Society who had served food at the reception. Barone found that a year before she had also served at a church supper where three people had contracted typhoid. Her granddaughter had the disease after visiting her. A boarder came down with it in 1936. She was then suspected, but no infection could be found. This time tests were positive...
After a Russian supper of vodka, cherry brandy, sausages, fried potatoes, more vodka and endless cherry brandy bottoms-up, eight U.S. reporters and their three escorting Russian officers went out walking in Halle. Its streets were lit by a pale moon, traced by the grotesque shadows of bombed buildings. They had not gone a block before the first Germans joined them. By the second block there were 50. By the third every American was walking separately, surrounded by a milling group of Germans, pushing and shoving to say a few words into the correspondents' ears...