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With 1,500 gallons of gas in the tanks, America's most purposeful playboy, Howard Hughes, at the controls, and a wad of gum on her tail for luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...
...Chuck, treasurer of the Hip Sing Tong. The agent bought a generous supply of opium and went to Chicago. Here the members of the Hip Sing Tong were so entranced by his personality and appetite for opium that, when he capped his friendly gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing an interest in heroin and morphine. This the Tong members were...
...blood clotted ears, fresh from the back alley arenas of Boston's catdom. Grabbing the beast by the nape, our host handed him to us to hold--unpleasant, because Frankie's claws were sharp as steel and busy every second. The professor meanwhile doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast, and on top of both was placed a large bell jar, like the dome of Grant's tomb. This not without blood-curdling howls, and scratches, and a beady look of the eye as sour as the Ancient Mariner's as the beast passed...
...crucial moment of the most exciting game of the liveliest week in the country's major intercollegiate winter sport. On the sidelines, Purdue's Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert, who puts a stick of chewing gum into his mouth whenever he is perturbed about his team, gnawed a wad the size of a golf ball. In their seats around the court, 5,500 wildly excited spectators watched the players go to their positions for the tip off. In the next few seconds, things happened almost too quickly for the crowd to follow. First, Purdue's forward, Johnny Sines...
Though expansive quantities are usually the accumulation of months, one unmistakably single mass measured a diameter of one and three-fourths inches. The muncher of such a wad is the sort of fellow Kipling would refer...