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...told, put in an appearance. The first (Audrey's hubby) is tossed battered from a speeding train. The second (a mountainous lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head to foot, his nostrils sucking in at a polyethylene laundry...
Chili Williams, "The Polka Dot Girl," wounded Dry-Goodsman William Schiller, who calls himself "The Polka Dot King." He had her under contract to wear nothing but polka dots (see cut), but lately, complained Schiller-a man who crosses his ts and eyes his dots-she had appeared dotless in public. He set out to break the contract...
...Francisco's clock-towered Ferry Building, is the semicircular "landing button" or artificial beach of Air Ferries Ltd., whose red Loening amphibians flash back and forth across the bay between San Francisco and Oakland every 20 min. On the button last week gathered local bigwigs to watch Dry-goodsman Marshal Hale and youthful James Rolph III, son of California's Governor (both directors of Air Ferries), slice a great cake on which stood one birthday candle. One would never have guessed from the exuberance of the affair that Air Ferries had not made money in its first twelvemonth...
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