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...have just finished your expert review of Witness with the same lump in my throat that arose after reading the installments in the Saturday Evening Post...
...last week Maxime Formartin went to the bank, drew out 485,000 Belgian francs ($9,700) of his employers' money in crackling banknotes, and with his usual care and sense of awe stuffed them into his briefcase. He felt giddy; his hand was sweaty, his throat dry. Clutching the briefcase, he hastened into a cafe, gulped a beer. In other cafes he had other beers, finally switched to port. Walking on rosy clouds, he passed a sandwichman who handed him an advertising circular. Suddenly the dream crystallized. Said Maxime: "You have given me something...
...singing before she could talk properly, back in Jamestown, N.Dak., where she was born Norma Egstrom 32 years ago. Eventually, she got up the nerve to give Hollywood a teen-age whirl, got a singing job at $2 a night, but soon landed back home with an overstrained throat that required five operations. After that, she had to learn to sing softly...
...North get over the Civil War as the South has? Why is it that every time a Southerner tries to do something for the good of the nation, you Yankees have to ram the Civil War down his throat? The South has been exploited by Yankee interests long enough. We are.now coming into our own, and the bloody flag has lost its political power...
...start in life came at the hands of Midwife Margery Albright, who rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought on a fit of sneezing that would "dislodge the most...