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...floor. At 1 o'clock police got a tear-gas grenade through a window, called again for the boys to give up. "Nuts!" cried the boys, with a perceptible quaver. At 1:30 the police got another grenade through; with tears streaming down their cheeks the desperadoes threw their guns out the window and surrendered...
...night last week a man standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn slipped and fell on the track, unconscious, just as a train roared into the station. A woman screamed. The motorman threw on the brakes, but he knew he could not stop in time. Two men waiting for the train jumped down on the track, grabbed the unconscious man by his shoulders and feet and slung him under the shallow overhang of the platform. They crouched there with him, while three cars of the train ground past...
...Snooks, Fanny goes through all kinds of strange contortions before a mike, mugging, squirming and jumping up & down. Unlike Colleague Morgan she never ad libs, gives Scriptwriter Rapp and Hanley Stafford, her "Daddy," plenty of credit for helping her put Snooks across, threw a party last week in honor of them and Snooks's seventh anniversary. Favorite situation cooked up for Snooks involved the purchase of an Easter bonnet. First she demands flowers for the hat, then fruit, eggs, vegetables. Remarks the clerk: "Shall I wrap it up?" Replies Snooks: "No, I'll eat it here...
...automatic rifle ranges, 75% with the Springfield. Betweentimes, swathed in coveralls, they had hiked, practiced open-order fighting, strung barbed wire. In the late afternoons, after 45 minutes of football, baseball or boxing, they had gone to chow, sometimes back to school again in classrooms where officers and noncoms threw theory at them in great gobs, had put them through weekly examinations. In classroom they had been confronted with the placarded great sayings of soldiers (Napoleon: It is an axiom of military science that the army which remains behind its entrenchments is beaten.). And constantly in their ears had rung...
...Minister. But there were also hisses, and a sabre-scarred German in civilian clothes protested to the Minister that the song was anti-German. The Minister replied that he liked the song, that Bulgaria was neutral, and that he would comport himself as he pleased. Thereupon the German threw a champagne bottle at the Minister who, in warding it off, got a six-inch bruise in his forearm. The Minister promptly socked the German in the face, knocking him down. It was the Minister's third personal café tangle with the Axis since taking this...