By 1910, about 31 Italian families were living in or near Nichols and working at the General Chemical Company. Many of them were contadinos sponsored by family.

Hal was too small to play, but he sat far out in foul territory, sucking on his blueberry Popsicle and chasing what the big kids called Chinese home runs. (Cited at Dickson, above. He further quotes correspondence from King that indicates that his understanding of this term was that it applied to a foul ball over the backstop)

But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.

The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.