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Groaning under record loads of passengers and freight, short of men, shy of equipment, U.S. railroads have chugged along by dint of many a huff, puff and prayer, and some luck. Now their luck seemed to be running...
...just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley...
Speaking of time rationing we (editorial "we") have been so busy that this column never did get written last week and was written this time only by dint of being able to juggle the books of the Pepper Corporation in one hand and juggling the typewriter keys with the other hand to produce this hodgepodge...
Saturday evening, May 22, will find the dormitories of Mellon Hall deserted of potential 2nd Lieutenants, for they will be found at the Parker House Roof dancing with WAVES, WAACS, and & few "civilians" in celebration of their graduation the following Monday morning. By dint of the grapevine, this promises to be a very "gay" affair...
Jerry Levy, first string goalie of the '45 team, holds, a slight edge by dint of his experience, over Norm Cameron, who has been out of action for two years...