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...children did the rest. Daughter René, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie wet his diapers, and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair...
...that he was just as fast as most of the big kids in town. Still, the eight-year-old managed to stand up at the plate and take his three cuts, even though all the kids and parents in the park could tell only too well that he had wet his pants...
...Electric Floor Washer. A lightweight electric floor washer that wet-scrubs floors and vacuum-dries them will be put on sale next month by the Hoover Co., North Canton, Ohio. Its motor creates a suction to pick up dirty water after the floor is scrubbed by nylon brushes. Price...
...moment almost hysterical. Then to himself: "You've come this far down for this? Let's get organized." He began walking a procedural-square search, found himself after two 90° turns on a country road. A dozen cars passed him as he stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly. Finally a car slowed ("Stop," a small boy cried to his father, "there's a jet pilot standing in the road!"), took him to a country store, where he collapsed on the floor while waiting for an ambulance to carry...
...learned a little clumsy sleight of hand, and started to play the dime museums and carnivals that flourished in the late 19th century. He was a flop, and he had to break out of that situation, too. He concentrated on the art of escape itself. Handcuffs, prison cells, the wet-sheet packs of insane asylums, coffins, giant milk cans bolted shut-he beat them all. Said his mother: "From this you should make a living...