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...setup got an all-out test when a fairly severe earthquake shook up the town of Torrance, 15 miles from Los Angeles. The civilian defenders were there almost as fast as the sheriff's men. They patrolled wrecked buildings, directed traffic, administered first aid, set up soup kitchens...
Struggling valiantly with this mulligatawny soup A & C very nearly choke themselves, repeat gags that have now become too familiar for repetition, only occasionally reach their former heights of unabashed zaneity. It will take a fresh tankful of high octane to keep A & C flying...
...passengers; even if there were enough dining cars in the U.S., their use would be unpractical. Stewards of all roads have held many a meeting. Result: more than 250 baggage cars have been fitted out with portable gas stoves and converted into mess cars, to serve hot coffee, soup, sandwiches, pies. Coffee will cost 5?, sandwiches and pies 10?. Some Western roads will stop the trains while men eat in station restaurants, others will put box lunches aboard...
Back in the '20s, when he was captain in command of the battleship Mississippi, Tommy Hart was just as independent as he is today. Once, while leading eleven other battleships in a pea-soup fog, he heard a destroyer's warning siren, somewhere off his bow. Promptly, without consulting his fleet commander, he ordered the line to stop. Hauled up on the carpet for breach of regulations, he exploded: "If I couldn't see, how the hell could the flagship at the end of the line?" He was officially rebuked, unofficially applauded...
Almost a tradition is "Jeeves," billed as "the jokester-butler" in the publicity pamphlet which Mrs. Barnes has issued to drum up trade for her entertainers. "With his thumb in the soup and his tongue in his cheek, Jeeves does indeed keep the evening on its feet and jumping." What Jeeves does is entirely up to him, and once the party has begun no one knows, least of all the hostess, what's in store. "All I have to do is raise hell in a subtle sort of way," he modestly explains...