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...Eyobélé died, and the wine was spilled. Then, as the women gathered around the dead man for the nightlong watch, a thunderstorm loomed over the village; and even before the cockerel could be beheaded, Eyobélé's prophecy was carried out. A bolt of lightning crashed into Eyobélé's hut, and a moment later nine women lay dead around the bier. Last week Bokouélé was a ghost village, in which Father Benoit Gassongo, the Roman Catholic priest and teacher, stirred among the vacant seats of the mission...
Rich, bighearted, wackish Uncle Daniel Ponder has. among other benefactions, married a pretty little birdbrain (Sarah Marshall) and brought her-with her love of household gadgets-to a house without electricity, where she dies, at length, of fright during a thunderstorm. Prodded by an ambitious lawyer, her back-country kin charge Uncle Daniel with murdering her. The trial-of a modern-day Uncle Toby-calls to mind the trials in Pickwick and Alice in Wonderland. With cousins on the jury, kids overrunning the witness box, refreshments being served, Uncle Daniel first disappearing and then hiring the prosecution lawyer to handle...
...early sketches, found his inspiration directly in nature. One of his best is Oncoming Spring (opposite), a triumphal rendering of a theme that had been germinating in his mind since 1915. In a rapturous letter Burchfield described the final harvest: "Hardly had I set up my easel when a thunderstorm came up. I decided nothing was going to stop my painting, and hurriedly got my huge beach umbrella and my raincoat. I protected my legs with a portfolio, the wind holding it in place. And so I painted with my nose almost on the paper, with thunder crashing, boughs breaking...
...more promising than radar. As far back as 1947, Dr. Herbert L. Jones of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mining College discovered that lightning flashes from tornado clouds send out "sferics" (atmospheric radio waves) of unusually high frequency. Such waves can be detected a long way off, and distinguished from ordinary thunderstorm sferics...
During the second meeting, a thunderstorm broke out and some of Billy's listeners raised umbrellas as rain began leaking through the roof. "I was told today that you needed rain," said Billy without batting an eye. "I am happy it is raining."_Billy remained happy throughout his stay in Paris. Although he did not draw a single capacity audience, the turnout was greater than he had expected. On his last night (he later left for a brief rest in Zurich before starting a tour of other European countries), he drew a crowd of 11,000. "We have fallen...