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Groucho Marx let a "beautiful young lady" out of his sedan in Los Angeles and drove into a telephone pole. Treated at a hospital for bruises and a possible rib fracture, he explained: "I was looking at her in the rearview mirror, or rolling up the windows, or something...
Last July big, bearded, 35-year-old War Correspondent John Thompson (Chicago Tribune) parachuted out of a night sky into Sicily, landed in an olive tree, twisted a knee, cracked a rib...
...Grocery & Baking Co. He also learned that the way of the small town independent grocer is hard, and decided to stay out until he had a saving trick up his sleeve. Last February, he cannily foresaw the strict rationing ahead, and guessed that coupon-confused housewives would give a rib-cracking welcome to an old-fashioned grocery store, where there was no such vexing thing as "points...
...bold, bearded (35) John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune floated down from the night sky with a flight of tough U.S. paratroops. It was his second invasion jump (the first: near Tabessa, Algeria, last November). He crashed through an olive tree before he hit the ground, cracking a rib, wrenching a knee, skinning his knuckles. His tired old secondhand portable typewriter got to earth in a parachute bundle. Thompson found it, hid it behind a stone wall. But by the time the paratroops had taken Vittoria, someone had stolen his portable...
...columnist went on to rib U.S. historians and their public in general, said that a citizen "typical of his time" would have responded as follows...