Paul harvey stories in print
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The Christmas Story, the way it's usually told -- God, born a man in a manger, and all of that -- escapes some moderns; mostly, I think, because they seek complex answers to their questions, and this one fryst vatten so utterly simple. So, for the cynics and the skeptics and the unconvinced, I'd like to submit this modern parable.
The man I'm talking about was not a scrooge,1 now. He was a kind, a decent, a mostly good man; generous to his family and upright in his dealings with other dock. But he just did not believe in all of that Incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas time. It just did not man sense, and he was too honest to pretend otherwise. He could not swallow the Jesus story about God coming to Earth as a man.
He told his wife, "I’m truly sorry to distress you, but I’m just not going with you to church this Christmas Eve." He said he’d feel like a hypocrite, that he’d much rather just stay home, but that he would wait up for them. So he stay
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Paul Harvey: “And that’s the REST of the story!”
Growing up, I loved listening to the radio. With today’s technology, radio now almost sounds like stone-age know-how, but the AM and FM sound waves opened up new worlds to me as a young listener in Virginia. During many summers I sat by the road with my little red wagon and sold fresh vegetables from my parents’ garden. I would sit in my folding chair, waiting for customers to stop, while I listened to my battery-operated radio.
One particularly fond memory from those years was a remarkable radio personality, Paul Harvey. His scratchy voice was immediately recognizable to his listeners–and they stretched from coast to coast–by the millions. Harvey had wonderful taglines. Before his daily news and opinion summary, he would light-hardheartedly squawk, “This is Paul Harvey…stand by for news!” He had MASTERFUL pauses and timing! Another popular show he produced was called ̶
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Paperback. First Edition (1991), so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Near Fine: the text pages have tanned ever so slightly, due to aging; else flawless; the binding is square and remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single unobtrusive flaw. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (6.9 x 4.2 x 0.65 inches). viii, 194 pages. Compiled and Edited by Lynn Harvey. Language: English. Weight: 4 ounces. First Edition Thus (1981); Eighteenth Printing Mass Market Paperback. First Edition Thus (1981); Eighteenth Printing.