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...getting a blood test, a license, a waiver of the 72 hours' invalidity. They tear in just under the wire for a grimy little civil ceremony that is shattered to bits by the passage of elevated trains. There follows a beautiful, bleak scene in an off-hours lunchroom where a munching stranger at the next table looks on and listens in as they droop over their inedible food, trying to fight off their bewilderment, their disappointment, their misery, their freezing shyness...
Died. Francis T. Maloney, 50, New Dealing senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut; of a heart attack; in Meriden. In 22 years, he rose from counterman in an all-night lunchroom to city editor of the Meriden Record, to Mayor, to Congressman, to U.S. Senator. He had become known as an able though infrequent orator, a "Senator's Senator...
...Helen, 13, makes coffee, serves in a lunchroom 28½ hours a week; her school-plus-work hours total...
...Littlefork, Minn., a lunchroom last week regaled diners with a new delicacy -beaverburgers (made from beaver). U.S. citizens were eating horse, rabbit and squirrel in quantities worthy of note. And last week the Department of Interior announced that there would soon reappear on U.S. dinner tables, for the first time since World War I, a more substantial addition to the nation's meat supply: whale meat...
...Lunchroom Proprietor H. B. Clifford collected the kiss Paulette Goddard had promised the man who brought the most aluminum to her door. It lasted 45 seconds, by the stop watch of Cecil B. De Mille. Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded...