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Lampy's at it again! Or so it may well seem to new Gold Coasters not yet accustomed to zany goings-on in and about the Bow Street Monstrosity. For one thing, there's the matter of the jumbled sidewalk. And the Fallen Pigeon...
...start, most experts picked Ecuador's flashy Francisco ("Pancho") Segura as the ultimate winner. Pigeon-toed Pancho of the two-handed drive delighted the crowd with audible pep talks to himself in Spanish, with dramatic gestures of disgust when he flubbed a point. But Pancho got a head cold, and in the semifinals a headache; there he came up against Indianapolis' lanky, steady Bill Talbert, 4-F (for diabetes). A sound stylist with good ground strokes and a solid net game, Talbert drove Pancho to distraction and defeat in five long sets...
...grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie promptly sweetens everybody's temper with a strong plea...
Back to the Pigeon. What had delayed the beachhead stories? U.S. editors did not know for four days. Then they learned only a little. It was not censorship this time, but a breakdown in communications. Radio transmitters for the press, sent in on jeeps, had been washed out in the landings. The intricately planned system for sending copy to England by courier never got going, for lack of couriers...
Correspondents had joked in advance about carrier pigeons-"they don't understand the problem." But two of the best stories came by pigeon-messenger...