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...sports, it held the Straus trophy throughout the war. In rooms, it has everything from singles to septuples. In food it dishes out the same stuff as five other Louses, but it dulls the shock but serving it in a trapezoidal dining hall with loads of room for everybody...
Bloom's cadavers have not sold as well as his other work, but he is optimistic about the eventual market, after the first shock wears off. One customer has been Author Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens), who bought an amputated leg with a gangrenous foot, hung it on his dining-room wall...
After the first shock wore off, screams were heard from as far away as London. Who did Louis think he was, anyway, dictating his own successor? The loudest screams came from Promoter Mike Jacobs, semi-retired boss of Manhattan's 20th Century Sporting Club: "I never thought he would do this to me . . . I'm getting back in harness in two weeks. We ain't conceding nothing." It was clear to him that Promoter Joe had declared war on Promoter Mike, the man who masterminded all of Louis' championship fights...
Pete Lawson's great work as second line center was so superior to his previous work that wingmen Morgan Hatch and Ned Harris were able to score two goals. The first line also shock off their rust and during the last half of the game kept the puck between themselves in the attack zone...
Many of his most difficult jobs remain unknown to the veterans they concern. Monro like to think of himself as a "shock-absorber" between the well-intentioned but sometimes confusing directives of Uncle Sam and the individual veteran. He tries not to disturb the latter too often with forms-in-triplicate or progress questionnaires...