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...Four R.A.F. aircraftsmen (ground crewmen) tugged and shoved at a Spitfire bogged in the sands of an African desert. When they finally freed the plane the South African pilot gunned his engine and took o f Then he noticed that the tail was heavy. In his cockpit mirror he saw the image of a wind-blown figure on the tail-no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip...
...very young his mother continually asked him: "Sweetheart, what do you wish? Sweetheart, what do you want?" Among the things young Salvador wanted and got were a king's ermine cape, a gold scepter and a crown. Dressed in these, young Dali would stare at himself in the mirror. Says he: "Then I pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials...
...Times, Herald Tribune, Daily News, Mirror, World-Telegram, Post, Sun, Journal-American, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Commerce, plus Brooklyn Citizen and Long Island Star-Journal...
...Brooklyn Eagle and the tabloid PM (published in Brooklyn) were unaffected. New York's four morning papers (Times, Herald Tribune, News and Mirror) and four evening papers (World-Telegram, Post, Sun and Journal-American) continued to go through the motions of publishing to be ready for the strike's end, but only a handful of their papers reached the streets. The Times ran off about 35,000 for mail subscribers (the copies to be mailed when the strike ends) and another 7,000 which were sold fast at the Times building...
...ship's captain had appointed a special steward to assist the British Prime Minister, who, at the time of the irregularity, was shaving before a small mirror in the captain's cabin. The steward was embarrassed when he could find no towel in the cabin or anywhere on the vessel...