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...appearance of five suspendered individuals known as "Die Wursthausischen Philharmonischen Flugelhorn-Musikanten" who provided by far the best entertainment of the afternoon with a post-intermission selection of beer music in true Austrian style, fairly bringing down the house. Known otherwise as "The Hungry Five," these gentlemen sported the thickest of gutterel accents, the nattiest of knee-length stockings, and a monstrous tuba that was seven feet tall if it was an inch, grinding out such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like I Know Brunnhilde" ("wow--wow--wow what a frau") and Becthoven's 10th Symphony which smacked...
...have reached Brize Norton if the British had not sent out a beam to lead it. In wartime, enemy countries would not be so helpful. The Brain's principal use will be in commercial airliners, to help pilots keep on their courses in bad weather and land in thickest soup...
...great snowball battle involving thousands of men takes place in the Confederate Army's winter camp, with "generals and colonels riding about everywhere amidst the thickest fighting, cheering on their men." General Lee, who left his headquarters to watch the goings on, "was struck several times." ¶ A brash Yankee prisoner, brought up for interrogation, pulls hair out of the tail of Jackson's horse. When Jackson demands to know why, the prisoner explains that each hair is worth a dollar in New York. Mild, modest Jackson, victor of a dozen battles, blushes at the compliment like...
...early returns, the U.S. was certain to have a hard winter. There was some corroborating data from the amateurs. Connecticut prognosticators said the stripes on caterpillars had been extremely long last summer-a sure sign of a tough winter ahead. Southern hunters announced that squirrel fur was the thickest in years. But more fastidious prophets refused to talk until mid-November, which is the best time for studying chicken bones and sweet-corn tassels. Dark bones and dark tassels mean a cold winter coming...
...much as two hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip in the thickest pea-souper...