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...thumb tacks-drawing pins...
...advice thrown our way ... but wo'd like to pass on just one more "rule of thumb" as a parting shot to those who may find themselves judging meat on the hoof in some distant South Paoiflo late. It's about those longnesed native plugs--piok 'em up by the ears, gentlemen ... and if the head goes down, it's too skinny...
...closest fight of the afternoon was the 155 lb. final between Johnny Parrish, of Eliot, and Hopson in which the decision went to Parrish. Because of an injured thumb, Dudley's Brendon Reilley was unable to take part in the 175 lb. final, so Johnny Watkins, of Lowell was declared the winner by default...
...Blunt as a hammer, he remarked to Sir Sholto Douglas, then chief of the Fighter Command: "Sir Sholto, I hear you are a son-of-a-bitch and that I'm not going to get along with you at all. Is that right?" They got along like a thumb and a first finger. At a military demonstration he sat next to King George for half an hour, exchanged only a how-do-you-do and a goodby. Spaatz's verdict on the equally reserved King of England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen paid a visit...
Captain L. L. Woodman, School Executive Officer, put his thumb in the way early this week while hammering on a KEEP OUT sign at the pistol range in Wayland. "Just a case of hitting the wrong nail," he says...