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Arnold and Mary: A Love Story Arnold Knutson met his wife, the former Mary O’Boyle, at the Palmer House Hotel of Chicago, Illinois, on a hot August evening of the year Nineteen-hundred and twenty-two. He was a guest of the hotel, in town to convince the Chicago Grain Exchange to include mushroom futures among its tradable commodities. She was the waitress serving him in the hotel dining room. “They’re too

God strode purposefully into the batter’s box, tapped some dirt off His divine cleats, and positioned His bat on His broad, steely right shoulder.  His powerful muscles protruded majestically through taut, ruddy skin.  His imposing frame tapered like a marble column, or a California redwood, or the world’s largest skyscraper, the Sears Tower, which stood only a few miles away.  And His well-hewn countenan