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...favorite. When Alben had outgrown the little Lowes school, his father loaded the family and their possessions into a single wagon and, with the cow trailing behind, moved to Clinton, Ky. so Alben could go to Marvin College. Alben worked his way through Marvin as janitor (years later a wag posted a sign on the lawn: "Barkley Swept Here"), won high grades and a medal for oratory...
...wag remarked that the Communist commanders had opened a second front in Korea-in the U.N.'s prison stockades. It was too close to the truth to be funny. Brigadier General "Bull" Boatner, Koje Island's tough new boss, seemed to be gaining in his battle with the prisoners-slowly, and not without bloodshed. Boatner's big test would come when the new 500-man enclosures were completed, and the ticklish job was started of transferring the prisoners from the big compounds-probably this week or next...
...heads of 26 of Malaya's Communist guerrilla leaders. But for 31-year-old Chin Peng, believed hiding in the Pahang jungles, Templer offered the highest reward. He would pay, he said, $42,000 for Chin's dead body, or $83,500 for Chin alive. A Singapore wag pointed out that $83,500 was no more than the first prize in the Malayan Chinese Association Lottery. It is also exactly what Chin's operations cost the British in Malaya each...
...dozed at the wheel, she cried: "But I did! That's what caused it all." She confessed her negligence at great length to reporters and the police - practically forcing authorities to take away her driver's license for 3½ months, and prompting some nameless wag to erect a sign at the highway's edge: MRS. ROOSEVELT SLEPT HERE. But the aftermath was a happy one. Everyone recovered. Mrs. Roosevelt's protruding front teeth were broken in the accident; the porcelain caps which replace them subtly changed her whole face and gave her a sweet, warm...
...Look out, Wilt! Gehrmann's behind you!" shouted a wag as the runners pounded around the first turn of Madison Square Garden's indoor track. FBI Man Fred Wilt, running in a special two-mile race in the IC4A meet last week, ignored the gibe, but he could hardly miss hearing the excited murmur of the crowd when the time at the mile mark was announced: 4:25.1. Racing once more at his favorite distance, Wilt was no longer playing pacesetter for Don Gehrmann's come-from-behind winning sprints at the mile...