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...Pickup. In Milwaukee, after a minor collision, Clarence Gill got out of his car, took out his wallet as he started to note down the other car's license number, stood dumbfounded when the other driver snatched his wallet, drove...
...rare sincerity. Ike got his first big laugh when Actor James Stewart, in Los Angeles, began haltingly: "Mr. President . . . General ... Sir .. ." But the President was plainly touched when Stewart, who had served under him as a bomber wing commander, concluded: "God bless you, Mr. President." When the Atlanta pickup came, both the President and Mamie gazed closely at the face of their old friend, Golfer Bobby Jones, as though trying to fathom Jones's present state of health (he has long suffered from a spinal ailment). Ike laughed happily when Jones assured him that "the golf course...
...boycott continued, and last week, as it entered its second month, was still 95% effective. Rallies were held twice a week in Negro churches, where overflow crowds gathered to receive the latest information on car-pool schedules (the motor pool includes more than 200 cars operating from 40 regular pickup points...
...first touched Japan in the '20s, made its mark with a tour by the late, swanlike Anna Pavlova, but Nippon stayed off its toes until after World War II. In 1946 the occupation forces blessed a performance of Swan Lake-all four acts of it-staged by a pickup Japanese troupe. It was headed by a tigerish young dancer named Masahide Komaki, who had studied ballet with Russian refugees. The production had a grand total of only 22 dancers (v. 64 for Sadler's Wells' Swan Lake today). Optimistically booked for one week, the show sold...
...Guilty Flee. In Jonesboro, Ark., Mrs. R. J. Barnhoft was arrested for drunkenness when she drove into a service station dragging a driverless pickup truck by the rear bumper of her car, and whispered darkly to the attendant: "I wish you'd check that guy behind me; I think he's drunk...