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...Monte Carlo veterans still reminisce about a legendary mechanic known as "Jaggers the Yorkshireman," who charted the weaknesses of the Casino's wheels, reportedly cleaned up $500,000 before the operators reset the wheels...
...aren't the only ones who compete with stitches in them." says Cox, "but the whole thing is pretty ugly business and we don't like to talk much about it. From the medical angle, it isn't too dangerous to play with a stitched-up cut or a reset nose. It's the internal injuries you've got to watch." Unlike most "game" bags, the Varsity sachel bulges with an unfeathered assortment of 34-odd items ranging from salt pills and scissors to talcum powder and tongue depressors...
Wrote William Barkley, London Daily Express columnist, last week: "The favorite roosting perch of the visiting sailors ... is Piccadilly's statue of Eros (TIME, July 7), reset up just in time for this naval occasion. Happy, contented, their jaws working overtime, there they sit, apparently hypnotized by London's traffic swirling about them. Quick census ... at 3:30 yesterday: 37 sailors. There were a few girls too-about...
...that we have to send the copy over until it is intelligible. If that isn't irritating enough, nature sometimes steps in with a sterner warning-like the lightning bolt that struck the Philadelphia plant one Monday (deadline) night, knocking out the power supply. Type had to be reset in another plant, and teletypesetters worked round the clock. Chances are that your copy of TIME was late that week...
News stories had to be specially reset, and cartoons redrawn with simpler lines, for the Colonel's one-copy edition. Just how much all this cost, no Tribman would say. It took 28 minutes to broadcast the first issue (four pages, about the size of a lady's handkerchief) 29 miles to the Colonel's home. The Colonel liked it so well that he ordered a new facsimile machine which will reproduce a page about three times as fast...