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...unidentified youths set off a fire alarm at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in Radcliffe's Eliot Hall, but fled before police and firemen arrived. The only witness Suzanne R. Hiatt '58, reported that the pair drove off in a blue station wagon...
...with new words. At first "concussion" is an interesting sound, harsh and hard. Then he learns it is connected with a blow, just as it sounds, and that it is what killed his father. "Chariot," in "Swing low sweet chariot. . . ." is for him a "cherryut," ". . . a sort of beautiful wagon because home was too far to walk ... but of course it was like a cherry too" for both are beautiful and sweet, and so is home, though ever so far away. In one remarkable scene, Rufus uses a child's sensitivity to sound to judge the context of a conversation...
Roses & Romance. As educational director, the Professor also edited the garbageman's house organ, The Hired Broom, wrote inspiring editorials ("Out of Garbage There Grows a Rose"), so enthralled his readers with the feeling for the romance of garbage that one collector re-christened his wagon Egabrag, hardly less appealing when spelled backwards...
...time he quit school at 15, hardworking Derek Wiscombe had earned and saved enough money to buy out his former employer, an itinerant firewood dealer. During the next two years, with the help of an ancient wagon and an agreeable white mare named Gypsy, young Derek managed not only to get along, but to expand his business as well. Besides selling firewood in the Newcastle suburb of Jarrow-on-Tyne (guaranteed wagon-to-hearth delivery), he took on trucking jobs, even transplanted hedges...
...Ohio University weekend, members provided a station wagon for the three couples signed up, while eight couples rode the morning bus and 15 rode the evening bus to the last home game...