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Time Flies. Matfield Green, Kans. (pop. 146) suddenly woke to the fact it had forgotten to hold a city election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...When he woke up, he thinks he screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alice Was Feeling Drowsy? You Ought to See Our Man | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

...When he woke up, he thinks he screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alice Was Feeling Drowsy? You Ought to See Our Man | 4/21/1943 | See Source »

...back to the others. "They had reached the extremity. ... No more. Don't call on the outraged flesh or the defeated soul for what is beyond its power. Evening was coming up and they made a fire and stayed close to it, quarreling." In the morning, "strange weights woke them, their companions were sitting up from white mounds. . . . They understood." It had snowed. The pass to California was blocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Divide | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...many of the boys are turning their thoughts toward baseball... Wally Owens has been bating high at the Phillips Broke House. He claims he scores even if they are short games... Bill Bell is playing for Belmont this season... Who yawned in the Music Hall movies Monday night; he woke everybody up ... Rives Brown claims anyone who hangs on to that Merry-Go-Round for two hours will know what rough weather is like...

Author: By C. F. Reichbardt jr., | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 3/19/1943 | See Source »

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