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Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...
...months ago The New Yorker delivered to its 152,777 subscribers the sixth and final installment of the longest "profile" (thumbnail biography) it ever ran. The subject: gun-toting, fox-faced Walter Winchell, No. 1 U. S. transom-peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many...
Editor Wythe Williams of Connecticut's Greenwich Time wrote that a Berlin tipster had taken "a peek through the key-hole or a glance through the transom of the Goebbels sickroom," had seen the Little Doctor bundled in thick bandages- not the usual treatment for intestinal influenza...
...Washington's Adams Building stenographers of the Democratic National Committee were annoyed by pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with...
...strangely happy couple with growing suspicion, at length called them up and wrung a confession of their marriage. One of the pair, the officials decided, must leave. That night thunder rolled over Tappan, drowning out the sound of two revolver shots. Next morning the superintendent peered over a transom at the lifeless bodies of Mr. & Mrs. John Ellich...