Allen declines to discuss acquisition plans. . . . Nonetheless, W. Whitley Hawkins, whom Allen recently promoted to president from executive vice-president for marketing, asks the question out loud: Are we going to belly up to the bar? All Pan Am assets for sale have some appeal to us.

He's a budding deejay.

the diurnation of bats

But before he could pry the rock out of the slope, he felt Stave coming toward him. “Permit me,” the former Master offered. “There is little else that I can do to aid you. I lack the stonelore of Giants. Nor, it appears, do my senses equal yours. Yet strength I have.”