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...Leon ("Chu") Berry, one of the best hot saxophonists in the business. The musicians' union recently tried to reduce casualties by limiting jumps between dates to 400 miles a day. But with Berry's death the toll of bandsmen fatalities reached more than 100 this year. The hazard is not just a matter of long drives between engagements - it is multiplied by drink, fatigue, recklessness and special indulgence by the police...
...woman, after taking a squint through the eye piece, annoyed the youthful astronomer particularly. "Yes, that is very interesting," she remarked, and added, "particularly because of my knowledge of astrology." But she did not hazard any prophecy on the course of world events from her observation,--perhaps because of the obscuring haze...
...President's 24-year-old smell was a daily experience. Brought to the verge of bankruptcy by years of mismanagement, the city was unable to finance a proposed $42,000,000 sewage-disposal plant (TIME, Oct.. 13). City water is practically undrinkable,* and Philadelphians face the constant hazard of fire with an inadequate water-supply system...
Second only to Harvard Square's Boston Elevated shack, the hideous ibis-nest at Mt. Auburn and Bow is entering its thirty-third year as a notorious local traffic hazard. An attempt to eject the occupants and remove the monstrosity from the middle of a public thoroughfare was foiled by camouflaging it as an automobile accident, and the Building Commission has been stalled off by leaning the shaky south wall so that it is supported by the others. It is thus quite possible that the Lampoon Building will stand for at least another year...
...last-a prop one borrowed from the M.G.M. warehouse. Ex-Bundführer Fritz Kuhn, now convict 26558, was refused a parole at Dannemora, where he is serving two and one-half to five years for stealing Bund funds. Despite good behavior, the board decided he was "a hazard, to the public peace." Red-haired Annelise Thomsen, wife of the Nazi Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, denied she would refuse to return to Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said she: "I may have jokingly said I wanted another season of foxhunting here in America...