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...Reynolds attended the famous banquet of 23 courses ("the three high spots were perhaps the mushrooms fried in sour cream, the sturgeon in champagne and the pilaf of quail") at which Stalin asked God to bless Franklin Roosevelt. Between courses Author Reynolds found time to tick off some neat thumb nail impressions of Soviet leaders...
...They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy?" The crew, he said, grinned, and said, "Sure...
Saturday night at Tom Benton's became a musical institution. His son, T. P. (for Thomas Piacenza) Benton, took up the recorder. Benton put thumb tacks in the hammers of his piano to give it the proper twang. Friends and musicians began to come around to listen, laugh and join in-among them Singers Frank Luther and Carson Robison, Composers Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles...
...curtailing thumb tacks, paper clips and pins, WPB urged businessmen to substitute tiny staples for clips on papers to be filed. Businessmen were one jump ahead; clerks and stenographers had long been salvaging pins and clips from discarded papers...
Sophomore Jay Hurley, playing first attack, paced the offensive for the entire trip and was high scorer. Despite a broken thumb, Captain Wally Fenn started in the midfield, while Johnnie Moot sparked the defense...