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...Hudson River to New Jersey, kept their Manhattan phone numbers, hired special trunk lines so that their patrons could still call them for a nickel. Last week the Mayor finally got the telephone company to discontinue the lines. The only noticeable result, as noted by cynical New York Mirror Sportswriter Dan Parker: "Bookmakers' clerks . . . [have] writer's cramp from notifying their clients by mail every day what the new telephone number...
Damon Runyon chipped in. So did newspapermen in Denver. Funds came from Author-Scenarist Gene Fowler, Col lier's Editor William Chenery, Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr, New York Mirror Publisher Charles B. McCabe, Manhattan Drama Critic Burns Mantle, many another journalist and ex-journalist who had cut his teeth on Denver papers, in the good old days...
...result of experiments with a pistol, a mirror and the small-boned mechanism of a freshly dissected ear (with which he made the first motion pictures ever taken of the human hearing mechanism in action) Dr. Perlman and his associates showed that the ear damage caused by explosions is due to a shock pulse which occurs so swiftly that the normal protective devices of the ear do not have time to work. Their conclusions about how best to save ears from damage by exploding bombs and the firing of big guns...
...only the dead know that Hollis. The living know the hall of the depression and the war. It is the beginning of the new cycle, the cycle that begins in national emergency and continues on to mirror a greater Harvard...
Reported in one edition of the London Daily Mirror, dropped before the next, was the engagement of a working girl to the Hon. Gerald David Lascelles, handsome, 18-year-old son of Britain's Princess Royal, nephew of George VI. Icy denials came from Buckingham Palace, but the girl's mother confirmed it. The bride-to-be, if bride she becomes, is slim, dark-haired, 17-year-old June Morris, who works in a factory canteen. "It doesn't matter to me who he is," she said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half...