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Easy Pickings. In Milwaukee, Owen Murphy noticed that a Y.M.C.A. cafeteria marked its day-old slabs of pie with toothpicks and sold them at half-price, also spotted a thrifty diner who was toting his own supply of toothpicks...
...girls. He sent this whole stack to his girl with a note: 'I don't remember exactly who you are, but if your picture is among these, please pick it out and send the rest back to me.' '' The men moved to the diner...
This was no feverish campaign special. Four reporters were aboard, but no brain-trusters. There were no mammoth prearranged parades or bunting-draped cities. Like the other passengers, Willkie took his meals in the diner, spent most of his spare hours at his favorite pastime- talking and arguing with a few friends...
...walking wounded limped toward the diner. The mental cases walked slowly behind them. They laughed and chattered, stopping at the windows along the way to stare and stare again with a hungry look. . . . Half an hour later, well-fed, they limped back to their places, all aglow. Resuming his place at a window, a soldier said: 'I gotta keep looking back. I keep thinking maybe it will fade out, like a movie...
...people in the diner, their car seemed to whip sideways across the track. Headwaiter Bailey Beard saw a dozen men & women thrown through the windows, saw one woman's head cut off. Off the tracks went another diner, two Pullmans, five coaches-nine of the train's 16 cars. They piled up in a great, hasty W, tearing up the rails, twisting them like horseshoes. One coach was crumpled like an accordion. Another, slithering off the rails, hit a signal tower, was sliced in two from...