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SAILOR JIM: "Do they know that I have to scrub the deck at 4 in the morning...
...cure, says Billie's superintendent, "didn't bother her too much." She worked hard ("I had to wash dishes, scrub floors; I even worked in the piggery"); the 30 pounds she gained is apparently all muscle. Last week, Billie spoke with finality: "That's all over now; this is a new life...
...mercury stood at two below zero one morning last week at Pine Camp, the U.S. Army's 107,000-acre training area in northern New York. Three feet of snow blanketed the terrain, dotted with scrub pines. At H-hour, 11:30 a.m., 15 potbellied Fairchild Packets roared overhead, a scant 800 feet over the snow...
...Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Twin City Pigeon Eliminating Co. of St. Paul wrote: "Our representative will be in Los Angeles for the purpose of contracting with building owners to eliminate and control common scrub pigeons. We would like to have you provide us with a list of the names and addresses of buildings affected by these birds...
...Nellie had wanted to settle there since 1897, when, recovering from pneumonia, she spent a summer at a rest camp high up on San Jacinto. The camp owner had pointed to the scrub-covered desert below and said: "There's the place to spend the winter." Her father, a hotelkeeper in Santa Monica, laughed at Nellie's notion that Palm Springs would boom if it had a good boarding house; you couldn't even get to it on the railroad. Nellie reminded him that they had come West from Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs...