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...cigar-smoking Julius Klorfein, who had already bought $2,735,000 in bonds, including $1,000,000 worth for Jack Benny's old violin (TIME, March 8), bought at auction the autographed galley proofs of Wendell Willkie's new book, One World, for $100,000. A Detroit policeman, making house-to-house calls, came away from one home with a $100,000 subscription. The home owner: Speedboat Manufacturer Gar Wood...
...successively as the operator at Fort Wayne, Selfridge Field and Wayne County Airport. Her message: all soldiers on pass in the area return to their stations at once. More than 2,000 did, leaving drinks, dates and shows and a trail of blue air. Barbara finally looked up a policeman and confessed. Said she: "If I couldn't have him, I was making sure no one else could...
Manners. In San Francisco, a harried bus driver, cracking under the wartime rush of trade, refused to let his passengers off till they said, "Please." Inflated with success, he then tried to make them say, "Pretty please." They called a policeman...
...other day in Mexico City, I stopped on Avenida Insurgentes (pronounced,my Spanish phrase book says, "Ah-ve-nee-da In-soor-hen-tess") to enquire of a policeman how to proceed to Avenida Hidalgo (pronounced, according to the book, "Ee-dahl-go"). A Mexican gentleman with glasses and a professorial black coat was boarding a streetcar near me, and as he stepped up on to the car, he dropped a folded paper. I opened the paper, thinking it might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico...
Tantrum. In Manhattan, a policeman complained that when he told Peddler Raymond Vasquez to move along he had thrown himself on the ground and lain there screaming and kicking...