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...speed automobile thruway to Manhattan-was jammed into a honking, mile-long tangle by a mule named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York, bum a cigarette from a radio comedian and walk the mule back...
...leisurely cruise to Marseille, Naples, Alexandria, Beirut, Piraeus, Leghorn and Genoa. Thirty-five minutes after leaving her Jersey City dock, the Excalibur collided with the Danish cargo ship Colombia in the Narrows below Manhattan. The liner, gashed from its deck to below the water line, was ignominiously tugged to the mud flats off Brooklyn, and its unhappy passengers wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia got its bow bashed in, and fire broke out in its paint locker. Nobody was seriously hurt, but an investigation was started to find out how such a daylight collision could...
...story ends with a tear-soaked scene in which the youngest Merrill boy holds Debby in his arms while she dies with the plea, "Let me go. I know a hiding place. Let me go. I got to hide." Debby will tug a few soft hearts among veteran circulating-library customers, but such experienced judges as Authors Porter, Wescott and Critic Jackson, who are supposed to use their heads as well as their hearts, still have some explaining...
...Tug at the Tablecloth. At 75, Fritz Kreisler thought he had reached the age of "physical debilities and moral responsibilities." His health has been frail ever since he was struck down by a truck in Manhattan in 1941, and his hearing has grown poor. He was fiddling only occasionally; he did not want to "stand in the way of the younger generation," even though he thought that there were "too many crazy mothers who drive their children into careers when they're not fitted for it." He had some advice for kids who are fitted for it: no teacher...
Throw It Out. Despite bulging football attendance figures, Michigan's Athletic Director Fritz Crisler told delegates: "We're ready to throw out television. Video could damage our gains seriously, and it is up to [us] to act immediately." Western Conference Commissioner "Tug" Wilson protested that colleges were "giving television a terrific show at ridiculously cheap rates...