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...favorite form of amusement, before he got so busy trapping rascals, was the practical joke. Once, when a neighbor invited the Williamses to share a watermelon, Williams slipped over ahead of time, took the heart out of the melon, filled it with newspapers, and replaced the end section of rind. Top officials of the Treasury Department, staring at their newspapers as Williams announced his findings, have sometimes felt like the host at the watermelon party...
...people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
When one reader contended that the inside of a watermelon is white until air reaches it and oxidizes it to red, Mewhinney gravely answered: "On July 10, 1893, Dr. Ebenezer P. Humford, F.R.S., LL.D., F.L.S., Ph.D., succeeded in slicing a watermelon inside a glass-encased vacuum at Wallace-Huxley Technological Institute, Hyannis, Neb. Wholly untouched by oxygen, the melon was red." An impressed reporter asked how he could remember so many facts. Soberly, Mewhinney said: "I am blessed with total recall...
Tennessee's ex-G.I. Pat Sutton held up a large photograph of a Negro boy eating a piece of watermelon. The boy, he explained, was happy and he did not want FEPC. But New York's Congressman Donald O'Toole, who reminded the House of early U.S. discrimination against the Irish Catholic, vehemently upheld FEPC. "We are [God's] creatures," he cried, "and we are entitled to receive from each other the love He bade us give." Harlem's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, pilot of the Administration bill, quoted Daniel Webster in railing against...
Although their lands were soon surrounded by coffee plantations, the Americans stuck to such familiar crops as cotton and melancia americana (watermelon). Hard work brought prosperity. Over the years the settlers intermarried with Brazilians and gave up their U.S. citizenship...