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...Western visitor finds relief in leaving Belgrade. The Ori ent Express, which had come from Stamboul and Sofia, crawled across the snowy Voivodina plain. In my first-class wagon-lit compartment, the washbasin was dirty. There was neither soap nor towel. The bed pillows were grubby. The Serbian Pullman attendant grabbed my passport and exit permit and as good as told me that was all he had to do - from there on it was a mat ter of indifference to him whether I starved, sang or jumped out of the window. In fact, I munched salami between gross layers...
Died. Alan Hale (real name: Alan Mac-Kahn), 57, veteran cinemactor (The Covered Wagon, Robin Hood), part-time inventor (a sliding theater seat); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...
Douglas' chances looked as hopeless as Harry Truman's; Douglas himself had fought for Eisenhower instead of Truman before Philadelphia, convinced at the time that the President was "inept." But in the spring of 1948, Douglas hitched a loudspeaker to a jeep station wagon and started out across the state. Talking wherever a crowd would gather, beginning at factory gates at 7 a.m., stopping at every gas station and crossroads café, winding up again at another factory for the midnight shift, he covered 40,000 miles, made more than 1,100 speeches in six months...
...procession of the Lord was marching through Sheffield, England. At its head was a brass band blaring hymns from atop a wagon; next, on a white horse, came the onetime champion wrestler of Northumberland, now a convert to God. After him in a carriage rode the Generals William and Catherine Booth, and behind marched the uniformed soldiers of their Salvation Army. Then the Devil attacked...
Special Delivery. In St. Louis, Policeman William Conley frantically called for a patrol wagon to take his expectant wife to the hospital, scrambled aboard when the car arrived, two blocks away ordered the driver to return and pick up Mrs. Conley...