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Nearby filling-station attendants complained that their washrooms were clogged with naked Witnesses taking sponge baths. Mechanics sweated without charge over the creaking chariots of fellow zealots. Free haircuts were dispensed by an amateur barber who was thoughtful enough to bring along an electric clipper. Payless chefs, cooking in tin-plated oil drums and 600-gallon kettles, ladled out 75,000 meals...
...worst. Like all the island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...
...Robbery. Then they acquired a nickelodeon in New Castle, Pa. By 1917 they had their own distributing company. By the mid-'20s they were making $1,000,000 a year on their own pictures, and they controlled two popular stars-John Barrymore and a talented dog named Rin-Tin-Tin...
...Jack views the future with equanimity. Last week he reared back in his plush, green leather upholstered office and mused: "I like Westerns best. . . . You know what a Western is, don't you? It's Rin-Tin-Tin climbing through the transom to rescue some beautiful broad. Only instead of Rin-Tin-Tin now, we've got Errol Flynn...