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...since prewar days, new numbers 1,200, including 400 Americans. Foreigners love Siam. Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was entranced until he met with a painful accident. A doctor explained that his swollen cheek was caused by a poisonous moth. "How," cried Hirschfeld, "can I tell people at home I was bitten by a moth...
...press party given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Hearst's Bob Considine did little better; he drew only frozen stares with a wisecrack about 10-cc syringes. Hard-bitten Reporter James Kilgallen also stopped a Manchester dowager cold with his definition of how to pronounce his name: "Kill gallon, madam. Like booze...
...loud voice of doom was heard in the land last week. It belonged to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s hard-bitten Chairman Sewell Avery, who has been preparing for disaster for the last three years. To the stockholders of U.S. Gypsum, which he also heads, Avery reported that the company had salted away $55 million in cash reserves. Warned Avery: "The thing that hit us in 1929 cannot be assumed not to happen again. Personally, I have been waiting for years for the ax to fall. I am becoming more convinced momentarily that the time is not far away...
...course of the jamboree, 41 people were bitten by animals or human beings. A howling burglar was caught after he had run from the scene of his crime smack into a beehive. One policeman shot his wife in the leg and was himself knifed by another man. Another cop had his skull bashed by a man he had just saved from drowning...
...honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, got up, threw away his prepared text and adlibbed: "Crashes are the price you pay for motion...