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Southwest started when Agent Hayward and onetime Airplane Salesman John Howard Connelly dined in a cosy booth in Beverly Hills' swank Chasen's Restaurant, decided to use some Hollywood razzle-dazzle on the Army's mushrooming pilot-training program...
...with extra-long cords so he can pace up & down while he talks. He keeps seven writers busy helping him compose gags, has two filing cabinets jammed with jokes divided in three classifications: 1) "checked gags" (available for use)-sample: "I'm thinking of opening a large telephone booth with a drug counter in it"; 2) "unchecked gags" (needing further working on); 3) historic gags (which he never uses but collects for his own amusement...
Legend says that when P. T. Barnum, James Gordon Bennett, Edwin Booth or Colonel Joe ("Gin") Rickey began to brim over at the Hoffman, Bouguereau's girls came to life. In 1934 a smaller Nymphs and Satyr appeared in Trenton, N.J.'s Stacy-Trent Hotel, where novices are told that on the stroke of midnight the picture turns around, reveals the nymphs to better advantage. Robert R. Meyer, owner of the smaller painting, thinks that Bouguereau may have painted a second, but has not proved...
When they did, it was never long before someone slipped into a phone booth and called Captain Dietrich Niebuhr, naval attache of the German Embassy. "My cousin is on the Gneisenau" he would say, and the clever captain would know he was talking to an agent with valuable information. When the merchant ships put to sea they ran into Nazi U-boats with uncanny regularity. Many were sunk. Napp received 400 pesos a month and expense money, and he earned his pay many times over...
That fall, together with her fellow prisoners, Mary Booth was transferred to a permanent camp established in a nunnery at nearby Liebenau. There she remained for two years. Last week, released in an exchange,* she was in Cairo. Said she: "[The Germans] are a fear-haunted people, of which only the brutal and sadistic achieve pre-eminence and only the stupid have faith...