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...week, a closed shop. On the fourth morning some 1,500 strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines bore down on the seething mass-at 50 m.p.h., said strikers. Four men were seriously hurt, more than 100 banged and bruised. One aging striker was found dead of heart failure. State police continued to break up picket lines until Governor Earle called them off. This week, after President John...
...same year Paris dadaists gave a "Festival" in the respectable Salle Gaveau Concert Hall. The program bore the announcement: "Personal Appearance of Charlie Chaplin. The dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building...
...other card bore the simple greeting: "Your laundry bill for the months of October and November now amounts to $17.34. If payment is not made before December 15, no further service will be given...
...because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest at the time of purchase would have yielded a higher return...
...Boswell and Johnson at it again. To bore you with extended criticism of style and manner of these two fast friends would be both vain and presumptuous, and we shall politely conclude that overworked angle with: "So much has been said on both sides, and so well, that we have nothing more...