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...must have been referring to the old-time machines which use block ice to cool their boor," Cronin added. "Our machines are refrigerated and are made of stainless steel...
...managers of the Wursthaus and the Picadilly In last night joined Cronin in saying that their establishments do not use the type of machine which might spread the diseases. Draft beer at the Wursthaus comes directly from the barrels through three-foot stainless steel tubes, while the Picadilly uses bottled beer...
Sense of Duty. The reason for Stainless' popularity, says Cartoonist Stamm, is that he is all comic-strip heroes "rolled into one bundle" and a full-fledged satire on many of them. For example, when the police commissioner begged Steel to give up his spectacularly successful amateur detective work so that the police would have a chance to catch some crooks themselves ("Heroism at its greatest! To suffer silently without reward"), Stainless reluctantly agreed, rented a room in a quiet boarding house to rest. Not till three weeks later did he realize that his fellow boarders were all crooks...
...horror Stainless has a devastating effect on the women who cross his path. "Ah don't scare easily," says Stainless, "but the word matrimony jest turns mah spine to jelly." His generosity often leads to trouble. For the past two months Stainless has been acting as the target for a knife-throwing TV star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended...
Cartoonist Stamm, who once worked as assistant to Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), brought Stainless into his Scarlet O'Neil strip because he was tired of straight adventure comics, now makes $40,000 a year. In the dead-serious world of comic-strip nerves, Cartoonist Stamm has a simple reason for Stainless' popularity: "His saving grace is that he isn't deadly serious like most heroes. He's got a sense of humor...