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...editor's desk. I have ever since remembered one paragraph, which really comprised the substance of the review. It was this: "-was presented to the Montgomery public by way of the Grand Theatre last night, and it further emphasized the fact that such shows cannot longer interest a leg-weary world." Twenty years ago and the public was leg weary. I am just wondering if the public hasn't finally become hip, rib, back and altogether sex weary by this time. I confess I am against the ropes. JASPER C. HUTTO Charlotte...
...heard the men arguing. He saw Werkheiser start opening one of the packages. . . . That was the last he knew until he found himself, in an agony of mortal pain and bloody numbness, being trundled out of the post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn...
...William Gibbs McAdoo, Mr. Baker's Cabinet colleague, wrote in his autobiographical Crowded Years: "Baker used to sit at his desk at the War Department with one leg curled up under him. . . . On his desk there was always a fresh pansy...
Ellery Walter, young (25), one-legged and cheerful, attended the University of Washington, then set out to see the world. Part of his travels he has told about in The World on One Leg. In High Hats and Low Bows he recites with cheerful candor the high spots of a celebrity-hunting expedition during a summer in Europe...
Part of the time he paid his way by tutoring two small boys. When his leg began to bother him and he had to have another operation he lost his job. But he soon got another as courier to a bevy of ten Southern girls. Everywhere they went Traveler Walter did his best to meet the national celebrities, apparently never failed to get his man. Hindenburg received him, chatted with him a couple of hours. He had an audience with Mussolini, was photographed shaking hands with Il Duce proving he had been there (see cut). The late Sir Thomas Lipton...