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Although he claimed he hadn't had "anything to drink," barrel-shaped Comic Lou Costello apparently bowed to circumstantial evidence after he was hauled into the Van Nuys, Calif, jail on a drunken driving rap. The cops' version of Costello's night flight: Lou drove out of his driveway, bounced off both his gateposts, headed off without headlights on the wrong side of the street, finally heard the prowl car's siren and stopped halfway on the sidewalk. After his lawyer pleaded guilty for him and paid a $150 fine, Comic Costello was led back...
Some of the militiamen in Orwell's outfit were mere children, all were badly trained, few knew how to fire a rifle. Orwell, who had once been a policeman in Burma, was appalled when he was handed his weapon, an 1896 German Mauser with a corroded barrel. Assigned to a section on the Aragon front, his ragged company of 100 went into the trenches with twelve overcoats among them. Before long, Orwell had learned the basic fact of infantry life: boredom. Wrote he: "A life as uneventful as a city clerk's and almost as regular. Sentry...
...simply be stated as the best suited to match against Stalin. If this contest were poker, Truman might be a good possibility for us, especially if he had General Vaughan to deal from the bottom of the deck for him. If the contest were one of rolling the pork barrel, Senator Taft would be a good candidate to stake our lives on. If, on the other hand, we were to match Stalin in coon hunting, our man from Tennessee would be an excellent choice...
...mile Derby Trial, barrel-chested Hill Gail and banana-nosed Eddie Arcaro romped to a six-length victory in track-record time (1:35.4). The 78th running of the mile-and-a-quarter Derby was almost as easy for them. Breaking from the No. 1 position, they let the fast-stepping Hannibal (7O-to-1) set the pace for the first three-quarters of a mile. Then Hill Gail took off, quickly opened a six-length lead. After that, it was just a matter of hanging on, and the bay did-with only two whacks of Arcaro...
...Enemies. Recently, an organization called the Partisan Republicans of California (flatly disowned by the G.O.P.) showered members of Congress with a slick-paper brochure entitled: "Annual Report to Republicans." Among the expensive red and black illustrations: a cartoon of a hairy-handed Joe Stalin pinning a medal on barrel-chested Ike.† The caption: "When an archcriminal decorates an individual, this individual must have served him well...