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...eight weeks ago). Meanwhile, U.S. interrogators learned from one of Hitler's office helpers that the Führer took 5 cc.s of morphine daily, † Numerous body scars, a foot scar and an aluminum kneecap from World War I; a forehead scar from the time a bathroom skylight fell on him. He shaved off his beard last year without injury...
...studio painter, Mount toured the countryside in a horse-drawn contraption of his own invention. It was a studio on wheels, equipped with a glass window, stove, ventilator and skylight. In beard and broadcloth, the magnificently free occupant of this vehicle roamed the lanes of Suffolk County proving to his own satisfaction that a pig was more paintable than a princess...
Lifted. In San Francisco, thieves took $7,000 in nickels & dimes from the Glenn-Rowe Cigarette Vending Machine Co., removed all 450 Ibs. by way of the skylight...
During the Prohibition '20s Billy had a connection with an exclusive "Club" on the corner of Manhattan's 52nd Street and Park Avenue. The club involved an initiation fee of $1,500 but people with money still filtered in. Finally police filtered in through the skylight. Billy, of course, had been gone for three days...
...This was the kind of political oratory that the House ate up. But the big point John Rankin wanted to get across was that he opposed the federal ballot-he called it a "bobtailed monstrosity"-because it was unconstitutional. His voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus...