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Like all telephone exchanges, the local office has had its share of amusing requests for information. Outstanding among those was a request for information about the average weight of an hippopotamus. Another time a young girl called up to know if the University Museum was going to exhibit the mermaid which Boston newspapers had reported found off Swampscott. Among the irritating experiences of the operators are inquiries by persons who call up to learn "if the operator is asleep or not", and the arguments of persons who refuse to believe the operator who tells them the line is busy...
Born. To Alice, six-ton hippopotamus of the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, a 100 Ib. son. The Menominee (Mich.) boiler works built an iron crib...
...inside of a character called Him and a girl called Me. When the focus on this effort is lessened, people on the stage sing "Frankie and Johnny" with splendid effect; homosexuals make their most blatant appearance on the Manhattan stage; three old ladies called "weirds" talk about a pet hippopotamus, saying "It's toasted but it died." On the whole, him is an interesting, well acted and ambitious failure. Author e. e. cummings (his own lower cases) is also the author of a bitter and unwholesome book about the War, The Enormous Room, and of many poems, some...
...terms they are with General Motors, observers fancied the Baldwin Works as a possible further adjunct of that vast corporation. A new, comparatively small creature could be pictured entering the cartoon published last month by the New York Herald Tribune, entitled "The Behemoths at Play." This cartoon showed a hippopotamus (General Motors Corp.) swallowing an elephant (U. S. Steel) which had by the tail a rhinoceros (E. I. du Pont de Nemours Corp.) which was swallowing the hippo...
...Hippopotamus...