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...minutes before midnight, footsteps clumped swiftly down the corridors, doors were rapped in staccato, a voice called: "Everybody up in the diner. The Prime Minister wants...
...five minutes a half hundred reporters, photographers, British military and naval attaches filled the diner. At 11:58 Winston Churchill waddled in, waved, moved to the middle of the car. His left hand clutched a tall whiskey-&-soda...
Born in Manhattan in 1903, Godfrey joined the Navy at 16, mastered the banjo in the course of a four-year hitch. Out of the Navy, he scraped along as short-order cook in a Manhattan diner, master of ceremonies in a Chicago hotspot, salesman of cemetery lots in Detroit, vaudeville trouper in Los Angeles. In 1927 he wearied of it all. enlisted in the Coast Guard. While still in the service, he got involved in an amateur radio show in Baltimore, wound up as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist." sponsored by a birdseed firm. With the help of Maryland...
...Samuel Spencer, president of Southern Railway System, riding on his railway in Virginia, was killed in a rear-end collision. Last week Ernest E. Morris, president of Southern, was riding on his railroad in Georgia (aboard the Ponce de Leon) when the equalizer bar on a diner up ahead broke. The broken bar hit a frog switch, derailed four Pullmans, hurled the last two official cars off a 20-foot trestle, fractured President Norris' skull and left...
...content a gourmet and good diner...