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...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...
Nuts. In Des Moines, prankish burglars robbed the Hawkeye Nut Co. of $125, mailed the proprietor a cartoon which showed squirrels carrying nuts out of a basement window while a watching policeman telephoned: "Sarge, I've just solved that nut shop robbery...
...Cambridge City Council, never far behind, decided that after 30 years of broken field running, local pedestrians were due for a rest. As a result, a traffic signal and a policeman were planted on the corner with instructions to keep the game clean. Drivers still maintain that this intersection is their legitimate preserve where every maneuver in the traffic manual can be loosed on bewildered passers-by. Whatever good the light and the patrolman do vanishes at 5:45 when the light goes out and the patrolman goes home...
...corner they would be visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers, while as it is now, the law controls little aside from sight-seers and boy scouts...
Kicks & Blackjacks. "The Lip" tightened noticeably as pudgy, Dodger-hating ex-Serviceman John Christian, 23 (a Brooklyn resident in address only), put forth his Brooklyn-shaking testimony. He said that after a night game on June 9, 1945, Durocher and Joe Moore, an Ebbets Field policeman, had beaten him with fists and a blackjack, and broken his jaw so badly that it had to be wired together. As further evidence, the Assistant D.A. said that Durocher had paid Christian $6,750 to settle out of court...