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...Dallas' Downtown palaces I deprecate my red galluses, But if I swap 'em for a belt My abdomen gets calluses...
...Tegucigalpa bank one morning last week, Joe Silverthorne grasped ten $1,000 bills in his fist, waved them jubilantly in the face of a friend. "You see these?" gloated the lean, pistol-packing Texan. "Well, when I get to Miami next month, I'm going to swap them for a $10,000 bill. I've never had a $10,000 bill, but I'm going to get one and wave it under the nose of every s.o.b. in Tegucigalpa...
...last time that Mencken spoke well of his native land. Years later he admitted that "I wouldn't swap an American bathroom for the Acropolis." But these were passing sentimentalities from the man whose avowed program was "to combat, chiefly by ridicule, American piety, stupidity, tin-pot morality, cheap chauvinism in all their forms...
...time, Swaffield has been hauled off the field on a stretcher, swung at by an aroused coach and hooted by hundreds of thousands of football partisans when he stepped off unpopular penalties. Despite all this, Swaffield would not swap his Saturday-afternoon workouts for anything he can think of. "It's a lot of fun," he says. "I like the game. I like the boys. I like the atmosphere. I find it a relaxation from the office...
Young and Hirshhorn, Goldstein said, had come into the McNutt company by virtue of a deal with a Canadian company called Pax Athabasca Uranium Mines, Ltd. which Young and Hirshhorn control. Last summer they swapped the company's Saskatchewan land claims for 1,800,000 shares of American-Canadian. News of the swap, said Goldstein, had sent Pax Athabasca's stock soaring (recent price: $28 v. 5? in 1949). Counting the shares in American-Canadian Uranium held by Pax Athabasca, said Goldstein, insiders owned 83% of American-Canadian's stock. All told, they...