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...plutonium off his desk and "just walked out with it." He had realized, "almost instantly" that he didn't want it. But he could not take it back without revealing the theft. "It seems pretty silly now," he said, "but it was like having a bull by the tail...
Frances and Richard Lockridge, who are best known to U.S. readers as joint authors of the Mr. & Mrs. North whodunits, are of a mind with Mark Twain. But in their new book, which covers Felis domestica from tail to whiskers and traces feline history from ancient Egypt to the present day, they sadly admit that vast numbers of people cannot stick cats at any price. Ailurophobia (fear of cats) may in certain cases be so intense that the mere suggestion of a cat's presence may cause the sufferer, in the words of a scientific observer, to respond with...
What about the question of dogs v. cats? Dogs, the Lockridges admit, are pretty nice chums to have around the house, and the sight of a wagging tail and a pair of eyes, brimful of adoration, puts just the right finishing touch to human wellbeing. But the Lockridges submit evidence that in hard times people are apt to prefer cats. During the Depression, their story goes, hosts of U.S. citizens sold their dogs short and bought cats. This may have been an economy measure. But "I cannot help feeling," the Lockridges quote one social commentator, "that, unconsciously at least, they...
...pike, but that was not all. Inside the pike was a large-mouthed bass, inside the bass a perch and inside the perch a minnow. Paul Maki of Port Arthur pulled a 2-lb. pickerel from Black Sturgeon Lake with a 3-lb. pike gripping the pickerel's tail...
Wild Bill Cantrell in My Sweetie and Bandleader Guy Lombardo in Tempo VI. Jones had it all worked out. On the straightaways, Slo-Mo-Shun skimmed along with its 1,500-h.p. Allison engine wide open, leaving a spectacular rooster-tail wake that shot 30 ft. into the air. On the turns, to save damage to his boat's lightweight hull, Driver Jones slowed down like a Sunday excursionist...