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...question is: Between the year of 1860 and 1870 a gentleman visited Harvard drawn by a horse. The horse suffered some Ill effect and became unable to draw the carriage. Showing their spirit, several Harvard men took up the carriage shafts and thus enabled the visitor to continue and conclude his tour of the Harvard Yard. What was the man's name...
...family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed hodgepodge of caribou eyes, ptarmigan dung, auk slime and fermented bear brain," which the visitor rudely refused. Then wife Asiak had a happy idea: "Maybe he is not hungry. Maybe he just wants to laugh with a worthless woman." Beamed Ernenek: "Make yourself beautiful...
Joyously, Asiak complied by combing her hair with a fish spine and rubbing melted blubber all over her face. But the Eskimos still had the visiting anthropologist wrong. When Ernenek showed signs of leaving and Asiak made signs of seduction, the visitor dived for the tunnel. Enraged Hunter Ernenek hauled him back by the seat of his pants. "How dare you so insult a man?" roared Ernenek, and bashed out the anthropologist's brains...
Will the U.S. help? The British fervently hope so. A recent American visitor observed to MacDonald that his job was like that of the player backing up the line on an American football team. The other "Mac" quickly added: "In our English game, the only football I know, it takes two to back up the line...
...Western visitor finds relief in leaving Belgrade. The Ori ent Express, which had come from Stamboul and Sofia, crawled across the snowy Voivodina plain. In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty. There was neither soap nor towel. The bed pillows were grubby. The Serbian Pullman attendant grabbed my passport and exit permit and as good as told me that was all he had to do - from there on it was a mat ter of indifference to him whether I starved, sang or jumped out of the window. In fact, I munched salami between gross layers...