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...Reeves, who scored 848 out of a possible 900. Onetime Marine, now a Detroit policeman and member of Detroit's world-record-holding pistol team, Reeves also holds-with his teammate Alfred Hemming, No. 1 in N. R. A. rankings-most of the world's records for two-man teams...
...whose companies had some 30 contracts with C. I. O. and A. F. of L., did not ignore this challenge. Mr. Flynn's "labor spies," said he, were hired for only one job: to inspect collections on Commonwealth & Southern streetcars when they changed from two-man to one-man operation, see that all the nickels went into the cash...
...divert the people's minds from their empty bellies, their sick and their war-crazed, their smoldering hatred and ever-present fear. Spaniards say: "It is hell now, but it is heaven compared to the war." Half a million are still in jail, packed six to ten in two-man cells, sleeping in two-hour relays. Twenty or 30 a day are executed...
Yesterday a single ran into a two-man shall and the two boats narrowly escaped demolishing each other when the bow of the double ran into the outriggers of the single and there hung stranded...
Kaufman's own reason for constantly collaborating is simply that he needs collaborators, that he doesn't think his plays would be very good if he worked alone. Every collaboration is an evenly shared two-man job, with long preliminary stretches for working out every detail of plot, until suddenly "a bell rings" and the collaborators start their "star-chamber sessions" of writing. Every line of dialogue is written together. From start to finish, a play takes anything from five weeks (You Can't Take It With You) to seven months (The Royal Family), depending...