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...When the barkeeper announces, 'Time, please,' the host has one more drink and falls on his face. The party is thereupon postponed till the following night, and you go home too loaded to care whether the wallpaper stares back...
...Barnes was a millionaire, thanks to his development of a bland antiseptic which he named Argyrol. Albert Barnes thereupon went looking for something else worth fighting...
...said what he thought a lot of people believed. "Governor Dewey has been a candidate for the Presidency and, for all we know out here, he may be a candidate again next year," the general said as he presented Governor Dewey to his X Corps staff officers in Korea. Thereupon, Tom Dewey rose and said it more flatly than he had ever said it at home: "I am not a candidate and will definitely oppose any attempt to make me a candidate next year...I have no plans to ever run for public office again...
...smaller fish was E. Merwyn Rowlands, 50, onetime Wisconsin politico and head of the RFC's Minneapolis branch. The charge: in 1949, Rowlands had picked up an inside tip that the Commodity Credit Corp. was looking for storage space, and told a friend. The friend, one Jule Marachowsky, thereupon leased warehouse space from the Army, cut Rowlands in for a 40% interest. When CCC came shopping, Marachowsky and Rowlands were ready, charged CCC $215,000 for Government space that cost them only $11,500. For the original tip on CCC, said Symington, RFC's Rowlands gave another friend...
...spirit is caught in the query of the announcing at the beginning of display 11: "What will they think of next?" At this point in the evening's entertainment. Leoni is standing on his head atop a 60-foot pole, which thereupon breaks in half. In the neighboring reaches of the Boston Garden loft, Mr. Morituri is holding a perforated steel sphere in his teeth while Mrs. Morituri cycles around the inside. Below, fearless janitors are carrying off card-tables that the Realles Trio have just been spinning on their feet...