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...Calais as long as possible, soon turned up with his staff. They were smartly uniformed, but one officer had a wooden leg, another only one arm. Colonel Schroeder stiffly saluted his adversary. Said he, referring to the anomaly of a truce: "This is like something out of Alice in Wonderland...
...growth-promoting substance that made Alice in Wonderland's Alice shoot up through the treetops has been discovered at last. Drs. Herbert McLean Evans and Choh Hao Li of the University of California announced in last week's Science that they have isolated a few milligrams of it in pure form-not enough to practice on little girls with, but enough to practice on rats...
...Wonderland Week...
...cinch, because people cannot bear losing that much money) was "What is the most superfluous thing you could carry to Newcastle?" (Answer: coals.) Of the 20-odd categories of questions (movies, books, music, babies, etc.) which the contestants may choose, most people are afraid to tackle Alice in Wonderland. One reason may well be the $16 question: "What did the slithy toves do when it was brillig?" (Answer: gyred and gimbled...
Probably the most versatile, and certainly the most eccentric, of all Macmillan authors was mathematician, clergyman and humorist Charles Lutwidge Dodson, who wrote under the name of Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lawn Tennis Tournaments: The True Method of Assigning Prizes, with a Proof of the Fallacy of the Present Method; An Elementary Treatise on Determinants and Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraical Geometry, For the Use of Beginners...