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...Opera Comique where French and Spanish women performed; the Morgue, where the proprietor maintained a standing offer of five free drinks to any man who could find undergarments on one of his pretty waiter girls. Besides the dancehalls and saloons, Pacific Street and vicinity had its cheap "cow-yards" which were squalid honeycombs of harlots' cubicles and more expensive parlor houses. Pitiful, and far more shameful, were the Chinese cribs, filled with slave girls bought or kidnapped in China by agents of San Francisco dealers...
...Cow Speed Sirs: Your account of Professor Bohr's application of Professor Werner Heisenberg's concept of uncertainty to "everyday existence, where an inch is an inch, and a gallon is a gallon" (TIME, July 3, p. 40) recalled to mind an entertaining bit og testimony given in a lawsuit in which my father was counsel for one of the litigants. The case involved an automobile collision. Immediately before the collision, one of the automobiles had struck a cow; and during the trial it became important for the plaintiff to bring out the speed with which this cow...
...fast was the cow moving...
...Well sir, I just don't know. She wasn't a-running and she wasn't a-walking. She was just a-making the ordinary speed of a cow. She was a-coming. The witness, a Vernon Parish farmer, was then excused. C. E. HARDIN JR. Baton Rouge...
...around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William Alexander & Fred Fetterman. Ther. Mattern turned up in Siberia. A U. S. plane could not fly there without Soviet permission, nor could a Russian plane take Mattern to Nome without U. S. permission. But Mos cow and Washington are not on speaking terms. Thus began a long and devious exchange of messages between the capitals through the office of Brewer Friedman, Struggling with unpronounceable Russian names, he took Moscow cablegrams from Boris Skvirsky, unofficial Soviet representative in Washington, relayed them to the State Department, got replies...