Reporters for tabloid newspapers beat a path to the park entrance each summer when the national convention of nudists is held, but... the cult's requirement that visitors disrobe is an obstacle to complete coverage of nudist news. Local residents interested in the nudist movement but as yet unwilling to affiliate make observations from rowboats in Great Egg Harbor River.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The structure was designed by an old sea captain who believed that the world would end in a flood. He built a home in the traditio...nal shape of the Ark, inverted, with the roof forming the hull of the proposed vessel. The builder expected that the deluge would cause the house to topple and then reverse itself, floating away on its roof until it should land on some new Ararat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alexander Woollcott broadcasts the story of the wife who returned a dog to the Seeing Eye with this note attached: "I am sending t...he dog back. My husband used to depend on me. Now he is independent, and I never know where he is."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"He swore that day till the leaves shook on the trees. Charming! Delightful! Never have I enjoyed such swearing before or since. S...ir, on that memorable day he swore like an angel from Heaven!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The church cemetery contains the grave of David Young (1781-1852), the astronomer who is said to have charged the French Academy o...nly $10 for making the decision that the Star of Bethlehem was not a comet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife's nightgown. ...He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. "Yes," she answered, "the figure of a fool."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adjoining a refreshment stand ... is a small frame ice house ... with a whitewashed advertisement on its brown front stating, simp...ly, "Ice. Glory to Jesus." The proprietor of the establishment is a religious man who has seized the opportunity to broadcast his business and his faith at the same time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic... for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The discovery of Pennsylvania's coal and iron was the deathblow to Allaire. The works were moved to Pennsylvania so hurriedly that... for years pianos and the larger pieces of furniture stood in the deserted houses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »