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...part of a full-page advertisement in the New York Herald Tribune appeared a facsimile of the following cablegram from London: "PRINCE WALES PRINCE GEORGE WEARING SLIDE FASTENERS ON TROUSER FLIES STOP LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN RECOMMENDED THIS IDEA TO THEM STOP FASTENERS USED ARE MANUFACTURED BY IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD BY ARRANGEMENT WITH HOOKLESS FASTENER COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA...
...news when a loud-mouthed roughneck gets a black eye. But it is news when a U. S. Senator in his cups commits a nuisance on the trouser leg of a guest at a Long Island party...
...Iowa, Bannery Shay Jr., protected by netting over his head and long gloves, set out to shoo a swarm of bees from a tree. A limb of the tree broke, carried the swarm to the ground. The queen bee, followed by others, crept up Shay's trouser-leg. He yanked the top of his trousers away from his middle, stood stock-still. The bees saw daylight, crawled out, buzzed away without stinging Bannery Shay...
Hillyer's trouser-leg was pulled very strongly; Hillyer reported that the psychic's feet were not near his feet when his trouser cuff was pulled. An electric bulb on the ceiling fiashed on and off. Buzzers rang, a "teleplasmic" arm grasped objects on the table in the dark. The arm pulled Dr. Boring's hair. "Dr. Boring placed his nose in the doughnut and encouraged Walter to pull as hard as possible. He was pulled with a fumbling horizontal movement strongly enough to hurt a little...
...first went 120 newshawks who applauded when he announced his system of verbal questions & answers, "off the record" confidences and short-hand record of everything said. To the second conference flocked 60. The President sat through it with his right leg cocked over his left knee and his right trouser leg hiked up almost to his knee. Asked if he enjoyed his first night in the White House, he replied: "Off the record, I haven't got much sleep since I've been here." Associated Pressman Francis Stephenson: "On the record I can say, we haven...