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...their apartment onto a balcony, which promptly collapsed under the unaccustomed weight. Another householder, filling his waterbed on the lawn to test it, stood amazed when it began rolling downhill, amoeba-like, oozing over hedges and crushing gardens before squooshing to a halt. Mr. and Mrs. James Klopp, of Mountain View, Calif., fell asleep on their new waterbed while it was filling, and awakened to find their bedroom awash...
...passed K Tower, Train Director John Feeney grabbed his telephone and dialed the stationmaster's office, which stood in the station concourse at the head of Track 16, and directly in the path of the oncoming juggernaut. The phone was answered instantly by Stationmaster's Clerk Ray Klopp. "Get the hell out of there!" shouted Feeney into the telephone. Klopp began to sputter indignantly. "Runaway train coming right at you!" bellowed Feeney. Klopp wasted no more time. He wheeled and yelled, "Runaway tram...
...second the two operators in the room hesitated-Klopp, the hero of the day, is an aggressive man, known for pranks and jokes. But his expression made it plain that he was not joking. His fellow workers ran. White-haired Telegrapher Richard Outlaw grabbed a crippled secretary named Mary Leonardi and pulled her with him. They bawled a warning to people in the concourse as they fled. Meanwhile, at risk of life & limb, Klopp ducked out to the track side of the office and yelled a warning to a crew of car knockers (cleaning women, electricians, etc.). Then the Federal...
...Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like to hang out in chess-playing Herr Klopp's hotel at Remich and watch the Germans across the river...
...Matson, Altadena, California; Bruce Shopard, Alton, Illinois; Olof H. Pearson, Boston; Laurence L. Stuppy, Los Angles, California; William S. Fields, Flushing, New York; Maurice Franks, Lawrence; Carl C. Johnson, Schenectady, New York; Albert P. Heusner, York, Nebraska; Joseph H. Phillips, Dearborn, Michigan; Francis McC. Ingersoll, Tecumsch, Nebraska; Calvin T. Klopp, Reading, Pennsylvania; John B. Hickam, Washington, D. C.; Bernard Rapoport, Hartford, Connecticut; Charles W. Sorenson, Logan, Utah; Frederick F. Ross, Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Donald N. Sweeney Jr., Detroit, Michigan; Russell Wigh, Hoboken, New Jersey; Francis T. Gophart, Bronxville, New York; and Bernard German, Newark, New Jersey...