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...also turned out last week that Frank had cast not one but several aspirin bottles, each enclosing his name & address. "A fellow from The Netherlands found one of the others." said Frank, "and wrote me for a carton of cigarettes...
...week a man approached a taxi driver in West Berlin and asked to be driven to the Senefelder Platz in the Soviet sector. The driver demurred, until the man offered a bonus of 20 marks ($4.76); then he consented. On the way, the passenger leaned forward and dropped a carton of U.S. cigarettes on the front seat. No sooner had the car stopped at the Senefelder Platz than two other men jumped in and seized the passenger, shouting: "At last we've nabbed you, you American cigarette racketeer." Driver and passenger were hustled off to jail...
Guard the Clothes. Boyd and Leeming were soon joined by several tons of British brass (including Lieut. General Philip Neame and Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart). As the war went on, discipline was formalized-by Italian standards. For example, since none of the Italian garrison knew how to assemble a new machine gun, the British prisoners were asked to assist; the British obliged, thoughtfully omitting to install several vital parts. When the captives were taken on a picnic, the Italian officers and guards joined them for a swim, leaving a British general on shore to guard the clothes...
...carton containing 3000 of these buttons was left on the CRIMSON's door-step last night, and in the cause of equal representation for all political movements, these buttons will be available to all students at the CRIMSON building while they last. . . Young College politicos could not be reached last night for comment on this new, but hardly unknown candidate...
...used to buy the cartons of cigarettes for 90 cents," the young captain was saying, "and sell them to the Germans for $20. I used to fly whole cases over in my plane. God, were we making money then. Of course, that was after the Marshall Plan. The guys who were there before the Marshall Plan used to get $80 a carton. That Marshall Plan devaluated everything...