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Kefauver could not have made his debut to better advantage. His role was that of an upright judge in a grim, real-life morality play. On one hand, aggressive little Rudolph Halley shrilled and barked at the forces of evil. On the other, Costello (only his hands), Greasy Thumb Guzik, Jim Moran and Anthony Anastasia defended themselves with all the genius and resources of Satan. In the background, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey wailed like a Greek chorus singing its lines from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. And right in the middle of the scene, calm, judicial, and unruffled...
Qatar (pop. 25,000), to the south of Kuwait, marks the next stage of the evolution of a sand-blown sheik into a millionaire. Seventeen years ago, Qatar (rhymes with butter) was no more than a sunburned thumb-120 miles long and 50 wide-sticking out into the Persian Gulf. Periodically, howling shamal winds blistered the low, monotonous plateau. Doha, seat of government, was a mud village, and the only sign of industry was a few palm groves by the sea and a few fishing boats. The only foreigners were American missionaries...
Jewell ships out chicks to nearly 1,000 farmers in eleven counties, provides them with feed, on credit. After the birds are fattened, Jewell takes them back, paying the farmers on the basis of weight gained. His rule of thumb: an average flock of 1,000 chicks should attain a live weight of 2¾ Ibs. apiece in eleven weeks, on 9,000 Ibs. of feed. For this standard performance, the farmer nets $125. If more feed is used, the farmer is docked; if less, he gets a premium...
Attorney Hermann Gottfried of Margaretville, N.Y. stood outside an upstate bus rest stop one day last week, desperately trying to thumb a ride, while his bus careened off toward New York City carrying his Gladstone bag with it. A motorist picked him up, the bus company held the bag at the Manhattan terminal, and Gottfried arrived in New York City's Municipal Building right on deadline. There he opened his bag and dumped out its contents: 117 claims demanding a total of $1,500,000 from the City of New York for the rainmaking experiments it conducted last year...
...froze clean through to China, he started off home without his mackinaw. At 100 below, he just buttoned his vest. But at 1,000 below, he froze solid. His sweetheart finally got tired of waiting for him, and went looking for another man who stirred his coffee with his thumb...