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...business in Geneseo, Ill. (pop.3,406). To it went customers who had been waiting for lockers in Emil Klinger's filled main plant. For his $10 deposit each newcomer received two keys - one to the front door and one to the locker - and the right to borrow an overcoat from the rack inside, so he won't catch cold getting his food out of his 0°-10° safe-deposit...
...various stunts pulled at Harvard by some of the biggest men in the country." Colonel Apted has a telephone and a cashbox beside his bed, is accustomed to getting up at all hours to bail out Harvard tosspots. When a socialite is arrested, Colonel Apted always takes along an overcoat to shield the boy from photographers. He lends Harvard men money, takes care of their parking tickets, runs their blackmailing floozies out of town...
...hear the finals in a county declamation contest. Schoolmarm Campbell was there, too. So was laughing-eyed little Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...
...which this country had already improved upon. One of France's top fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights the Messerschmitt, being more maneuverable...
...pretty, not military, not smartly turned out (a greyish green overcoat and a chromium badge), not paid, but by all odds the biggest, most valuable and most womanly of British female war work units is the Women's Voluntary Service. Their big test came on the morning of Aug. 31, when the Ministry of Health flashed WVS's chief, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, to get the children and invalids out of urban danger spots...