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Crime. In The Bronx, N.Y., a gunman burglarized a dentist's office, reassured the dentist: "Shut your mouth. . . . This won't hurt a bit." In Philadelphia, police accosted a suspicious-looking stranger, asked him what he was doing. "Waitin' for my partner," he said. They asked: "Where's he?" The stranger replied: "Robbin' a house down the street." In Dallas police frisked a burglary suspect. He was wearing: a pair of overalls, two pairs of trousers, two swim suits, two suits of long underwear, seven pairs of shorts, eight pair of women's lace...
...night a mysterious stranger appeared at a warehouse storing Pan Am gasoline. Sending the simple-minded watchman to phone the manager, the stranger set a World War I-type fountain pen incendiary bomb near some kerosene cans, then disappeared. The watchman discovered the fire before more than slight damage was done. The gasoline was needed for Lodestars that were shortly to leave for Africa...
Ears. In Columbus, Ohio, a man reported to police that a stranger in a grill room had bitten off a piece of his ear. In Indianapolis, hospital physicians relieved ten-year-old James Hurt's earache by removing a wad of paper from one ear, a wad of paper, a piece of lead and an eraser from the other...
Compact, greying, pitcher-eared, with jowls that would do justice to a mastiff, Bill Henry is no stranger to radio. Five times a week he does a West Coast commentary, is sometimes heard on such CBS news roundup shows as The World Today. He claims he was the first radio front-line correspondent of World War II. He came by the distinction rather fortuitously. When he went to Europe in 1939, it was to advise the Finns how to get set for the 1940 Olympics. As technical director of the Los Angeles Games of 1932, the Berlin Games...
Fair Stratagem. Telephone Operator Borissova in "Town N" was said by the Russians to have plugged in a call from a stranger in a phone booth. The stranger asked the location of some "communication enterprises." She said: "One moment please; I'll look up the information." She called the militia, who went to the booth, found a Nazi parachutist...