Then the old man told his daughter that as soon as the leaves came out on the peach tree in the garden, she'd have to marry the monkey man.

The company's head count on January 1 was 15,203.

It helped that there were plenty of celebrities — from Billy Graham to Tiny Tim to Johnny Carson to Leonard Nimoy to TV-phobic John Wayne […]

The most striking peculiarity, however, is the presence of a pair of glands (possibly aborted salivaries) apparently issuing from the posterior of the pharynx, and looking like the two ends of a clergyman's bands or cravat.