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Dream Walking. In Portland, Ore., a sober policeman put his hand in a drunk's pocket, drew out a snake...
Each morning at sunrise Japan's most important sitting-down soldier, Premier General Hideki Tojo, rides Tokyo's streets for half an hour. Policeman Ono was overcome with trepidation one morning as the General dismounted before his box and thanked him for guarding the capital's matutinal peace...
...Dwyer became successively a coal passer, longshoreman, hod carrier, plasterer's helper, policeman, attorney, magistrate, juvenile-delinquency expert, county judge, district attorney. Steadily the Democratic machine had brought him along. His culminating feat: smashing Brooklyn's grubby ring of gutter killers, dubbed "Murder...
...expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for pictures in chef's hats, fireman's hats, cowboy hats, gas masks, baseball caps, motorman's caps, sandhog's helmets, catcher's masks, policeman's hats, or hatless-domineering, demure, strident, spectacular, funny, embarrassing-but never dignified. He is a civic combination of Billy Sunday, "Schnozzle" Durante, "Chico" Marx and a fire siren...
This challenge would have been more appealing had not OPM declared two months ago that there was no newsprint shortage in sight. It would have been more convincing had not Paper Policeman McKenna suddenly boosted OPM's estimate of paper needs by nearly 40%-two months ago OPM set demand at only 18½ million tons. It was evident that OPM's figures on paper supply & demand, production capacities, are contradictory, that the Government is approaching paper rationing with as little savvy as gasoline rationing...