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Take Him, Trap Him. The Webbs, of both Tennessee and California, still teach by Old Sawney's terrifying "trapping method," a cross between musical chairs and a spelling bee. Seating his boys in order from ace to dunce, Old Sawney fired questions down the line. Anybody who muffed an answer had to trade places with the boy who got it. Feet on the desk, string tie awry, white-bearded Old Sawney hollered encouragement: "Take him on it, trap him, next-next-next...
...Zinc Trap. In Brooklyn, 280-pounder Bertha Singer found herself stuck in the bathtub, was wrenched by her son, tugged by a police emergency squad, lubricated with cooking oil, after 17 hours was pried...
...Mary's first important tourney, but because she didn't expect to win she felt little pressure. On the twelfth hole, she was two up. Miss Otto took the next two to square the match. On the next hole, Mary shot a ball out of a trap and it plopped in the cup for a birdie. At the 18th, after more good golf, it was exit Miss Otto...
Last week the great wolf was in a political trap. The police announced, after he had been missing four days, that they held Lasso as a confessed conspirator in a plot to kill President-elect Miguel Alemán and his prospective chief minister, Colonel Carlos I. Serrano...
While Kentucky's trap-jawed Congressman stubbornly ignored all invitations to testify before the Senate's Mead Committee, a whole array of Congressmen and Senators trooped in to explain how their names had popped up in the investigation of the Garsson munitions combine. In a matter of minutes Mead Committeemen examined and exonerated House Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley...