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The Story is pecked out on a wheezy Remington by the long Emergency Man (reporter retained for odd jobs) in the city room of The New York Morning Star. After the last copyreader has gone home, before dawn and the scrubwomen have come, he stays there alone, writing the story...
"1) Page was too fond of hobnobbing with British aristocrats. Page had been born in a North Carolina hamlet; the gaudy trappings of royalty naturally made a powerful impression upon him. Things went on swimmingly, almost deliriously, for a year. He went everywhere, got to know everybody, was soon on...
Her Sister from Paris. Once more the device of inducing a husband to make love to his own wife under the impression that she is a less familiar female is in circulation. As usual it is pretty funny. This particular wife happens to have a twin sister dancing in Paris...
Big Patterson was wild. He slammed balls into the net, he slammed them out-not out by one or two inches, but by many yards. Hawkes was slow. Williams and Richards winked at each other. "What, the crowd wondered, gives these Australians the impression they can play tennis?" Patterson himself...
Somehow or other I have the impression, which I believe you will find to be correct, that the Post Office Department is endeavoring to eliminate this practice of having letters addressed to buildings instead of to street and number.