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Purifier. In the South Pacific, 2nd Lieut. Allan L. Weckel crash-landed his plane on the ocean at night. Four sharks circled close until he poured hypochlorite water purifier into the Pacific, raised a gas attack through which he managed to paddle ashore...
...envelopes. But sometimes apparent trouble is easy to solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang, de-bump, de-bump, bzzzz, wham!" It's got to be terrific, an earthquake, a tidal wave, the end of the world!" Walker nodded quietly, went back to his office and came up with the Paramount-Public-Fox finish. Kelly was beside himself with delight...
After the war, Bernie Baruch went back to finance-this time as a creative investor. He made money during the '20s, quietly liquidated his investments before the 1929 crash. He went on serving as unofficial adviser to Presidents: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Under Franklin Roosevelt he has been a mother lode of fact and theory to the Administration-as well as its severest friendly critic...
...Stick to Your Field." Rockwell has hardly ever tried "straight" painting. Friends used to urge him to, and he did a little during the half year before the '29 crash. The results, he feels, were miserable. "Painting is certainly a higher art than illustrating, but if you are an illustrator, you'd better stick to your field...
There was one ASOTS casualty last week, Lt. J. F. (Farmer) Shultz. Lt. Shultz, a married man, attempted to crash a Saturday night dance in Cambridge. Being denied entrance because of a failure to possess a ticket, Shultz said, "My face is my ticket." Said the doorman, "Okay, I'll punch it." (You can still see the remanants of th deep black discoloration around the left...