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Durocher was visibly hurt. He said Christian had broken his jaw falling into a water trough. He described Christian's heckling as inhumanly abrasive-worse than that of the gifted stentor, Ebbets Field Hilda, whose loon-like cries are supposed to carry to the Mississippi. Patiently, almost demurely, he recalled: "As we say in baseball, he had a tremendously loud voice." On June 9, the night of the alleged beating, said Durocher, softly, Christian had ridden the Dodger pitcher, Curt Davis, into a lather:* "Davis is an elderly gentleman in the vicinity of 42 today." Durocher explained...
...open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...
Waste Not, Want Not. In Rio Segundo, Argentina, Baker Felipe Gauna exhumed his wife, cremated her, converted her coffin into a bread-kneading trough...
...noisiest: Mrs. Agnes Waters ("National Blue Star Mothers of America"). Her line: the Charter would "set up a world government for the Soviets . . . make of this nation a feeding trough for the have-nots...
...decline and thus to reflect the mood of disillusionment which was abroad at that time. We shall undoubtedly see some waning ardors when the present war is over. Such a reaction is in the order of nature, due simply to human weariness. But it is not probable that the trough of the wave will be as deep as it was the last time. To put it on no other ground, we know that we cannot afford such a lapse," Dean Sperry stated...