Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Potted Chicken. In Montreal, the city morgue received a hen with a note requesting an autopsy, put the hen on ice, finally got around to examining it two weeks later, discovered that it was not dead but simply dead drunk on mash, sobered...
...Social Note. In Greenwich, Conn., three masked bandits entered the home of George H. Houston, ex-president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, announced a stickup, stayed an hour, toured the house, chatted pleasantly, finally bade Mrs. Houston and her baby grandchild good- bye, shook hands all around (first removing their gloves) and departed with several cases of whiskey, $75 and nine gas coupons...
...Kansas City, Saloonkeeper Ben Brock summed up the first reaction of thousands, in typical American terms. Said he: "England was hanging on the ropes when Winnie took over. He got them back into the fight. So what happens? The people kick him out. A hell of a note...
Running to a car parked nearby, the painters found a note signed by August De Mont, 37, an ailing shipyard worker. "I and my daughter," it said, "have committed suicide." De Mont had had an appointment with a doctor that morning to take a basal metabolism test. He had not gone. With his five-year-old daughter, who had cried to go along just for the ride, he had driven straight to the bridge...
...Editor's Note: He should have gone to Yale and just sat on the Fence making friends...