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...Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carroll...
...when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins in a towel antedated the work of meticulous Realist William Harnett...
...comparative luxury at Dover's Grand Hotel, than it had been in France. They could sleep most nights, rise at 6:30, bathe & shave in time for the day's first air raids. One early-morning alarm caught a British photographer in his bath. Trailing a towel behind him. he ran to the roof, snapped his pictures...
...goodby, tears in his eyes. No one believed John Garner would ever come back.) In the closing moments Texas' Sam Rayburn had withdrawn Garner's name, Senator Tydings had withdrawn his own name in a statement that was like the slap of a barber's cold towel, and big Jim Farley asked to be permitted to make a statement "without interruption...
...other until half-conscious and happily drunk. In the early 1840s,'dashing young Dr. Long sniffed ether at parties, but was clear-headed enough to notice that his drunken friends, if they came to blows, felt no pain. So one day in 1842, he fearfully soaked a towel in ether, anesthetized a friend before removing a tumor...