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Chin Hong, a 40-year-old New York laundryman, had already mailed his $700 life savings to China, to buy his relatives out of a Communist jail. When a letter arrived last week demanding $1,000 more, Chin, depressed and penniless, tried to commit suicide. In a frenzy, he attacked three policemen who tried to stop him. They shot him in self-defense...
George Marshall, laundryman-owner of the Washington Redskins, got in on the play. Said Marshall: "It's hard to understand why Blaik would make such comments when he coaches one of the few thoroughly professional teams in existence. Mr. Blaik's references about football would carry greater weight if Army hadn't run out on its traditional rival, Notre Dame...
...sixth coach in 13 years. Washington fans, who put the 'Skins ahead of the home-town university teams in their football favor, thought the change might cause at least one twinge of regret in George Preston Marshall, the ex-hoofer, ex-Hearst publisher (Washington Times) and millionaire laundryman who once exclaimed at a dinner party: "Congratulate me, folks, I've finally arrived socially-today I got the sheets of Mrs. Borden Harriman." Washington thought George would miss having a vice admiral to order around...
Cracked Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker, whose social world, café society, is a cut below the Social Register's: "The joke of the whole thing . . . is that the Social Register has no more right to the vestige of authority it has assumed than our Chinese laundryman...
Last week, while Johnson prepared to take over Labor Department administrative functions, "Lew the Laundryman" seemed ready to wash his hands of the whole distressing business...