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...when Jock McGovern refused to sit down at the Speaker's request, he was ejected from the House of Commons in a shirt-tearing, low-comedy uproar involving himself & friends v. the Sergeant-at-Arms and elderly assistants in ritual tail coats...
Newark people did what city dwellers always do when faced with the inexplicable: they called the police. The police department had no map of Newark's sewer system. A sergeant and six patrolmen entered the sewer, carrying ropes, flashlights, a portable telephone, a Tommy gun. Under East Orange, four miles away, they were driven back by sewer gas. Next morning, twelve hours after the cow was last seen, two sewer employes heard moos coming from a manhole, climbed 20 feet underground, and there she was. Waving flashlights, crying "So boss," they backed the baffled animal through the echoing pipes...
Said he: ". . . We are able today . . . to measure our indebtedness to those who died. A few years ago, even a few months, we questioned, some of us, the sacrifice those had made. . . . Sergeant York of Tennessee, on a recent day, spoke to such questioners. 'There are those . . .' said Sergeant York, 'that ask . . . "What...
Most popular thing in the show is a rambunctious parody of the MARCH OF TIME, written and narrated by Sergeant J. Ross Kearney, onetime Little Theater producer in Utah, and Corporal Saul Robbins, an ex-gagman and animator for Walt Disney. Sample scripting...
...course no soldier-general, captain, or sergeant-can see the whole picture. I fought with the 21st Foreign Volunteers, and it was one regiment among thousands. But the prison camp at Dieuze gave me an opportunity to talk with members of scores of other units in the French army; and their stories convinced me that our regiment's experience was much closer to the typical than the unique...