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...pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with...
Prescription. In St. Louis, after hiccuping for eight days, Robert Meier explained how he had been cured: a stranger called on him, lit two black candles taken from a black bag, tied a string to a wet noodle and draped the string over Meier's head with the noodle hanging between his eyes...
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Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
...drinker himself, Gray favors the legalization of liquor sales in dry Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Santford Martin, 63, the Journal's tall, pink-cheeked editor, is a lifelong teetotaler and editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers, give Martin a chance to answer with signed prohibitionist editorials in the Journal...