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...door of the editor's office at the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (circ. 3,000) one day last week, a huge cartoon was tacked. It showed a portly, bespectacled foreigner carrying a suitcase toward a steamship. The pidgin-English caption: "All finish!" The Chinese caption:"Scram, Gould...
...Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon D. Scram-stad in Yellowknife, and farther north to D. E. Webster in Good Hope...
Answer. In Moultrie, Ga., an irate traffic cop demanded an autoist's name, for an answer got "Scram"-and, just in the nick of time, the rest of it: Joe Scram...
...palace intrigues have earned Perón many an enemy he might not otherwise have had. Last fall Eva threw the Argentine Senate into a furor when she charged into a sacrosanct closed session to demand immediate appointment of some friends as judges. The outraged Senators politely told her to scram. When Evita complained to Juancito, the entire body was summoned to the Casa Rosada to be scolded officially for bad manners...
...Bowery knew better than that. There was a long, sullen silence. Then someone said: "Scram, jerk...