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...Louis" helped fill the quota, and on April 3, 1823, a year after the ad appeared, Ashley's "enterprising young men" hit the trail. The duties of the new hands: to push their wav to the mouth of the Yellowstone River, erect a fortified trading post there and trap beaver in the surrounding country...
...crime, but, Nash pointed out: "These teen-agers (your kids) are constantly being shown that if they aren't as stupid as that very, very dumb and ignorant criminal portrayed on the radio (who got the 75 Gs, but got caught in a two-way radio police trap), that he, the teenager, could easily get away with it ... Lights flash on; bells ring; he visualizes $75,000 stacks of greenbacks stashed in his bureau drawer. He says to himself, 'It's about time somebody with a little intelligence went after one of those easy jobs...
...shut your trap about Nancibel. . . Another word about her and I'll shut your mouth...
...Papa and Mama Merrill and their five noisy but insistently wholesome children. Author Steele has Debby engage in some of the most ingenuous mental operations ever recorded outside clinical notebooks. Theoretically, there is nothing to prevent somebody from writing a fine, compassionate novel about such a mental cripple; the trap in such an exercise is bathos, and it yawns for Author Steele...
SEQUELS Dead-Hero Oklahoma City's wandering leopard, hungry and rain-soaked after his three days of freedom, sneaked back to the city zoo one day last week and gobbled down 8 Ibs. of doped horsemeat set out to trap him. Groggy and submissive, he was clamped into a cage, given a heart stimulant to counteract the drugs, 15 hours later was dead. By then, however, he was a public hero: the city park board refused to sell his carcass for $10,000 to a Washington, D.C. furrier; instead, he will be regally mounted in the zoo. Quick...