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...premeer Wilson Mizner drove up to the Egyptian in a dilapidated Ford and ceremoniously presented it to the doorman. For the opening of The Covered Wagon, Indians were brought from their reservation "by special permission of the U.S. Government." Grauman's best-known stunt was to catch the footprints of such stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in wet cement-a trick that was later used for John Barrymore's profile. Quipped Barrymore, as he caressed the cement: "I feel like the face on the barroom floor...
...year's end the U.S. will have more than 1,000,000 well-equipped men in expeditionary forces all over the world. (In 1940 Army maneuvers, soldiers used iron pipes for guns, planks across wagon axles for artillery, trucks for tanks; in 1941 they were still short of anti-aircraft guns and field artillery...
Coffee Hijack. A truck carrying 24,056 Ib. of A. & P. coffee from a New York warehouse to Philadelphia stores was hijacked and its contents stolen when its driver stopped at a Jersey City bean wagon for a cup of coffee...
Return of the Wagon. Admiral Halsey, who had served most of his life on destroyers before he became an aviator, said last week: Battleships will have a decided role in this war before it ends...
According to Bradford Cobb '44. War Service Committee. "The student made a good showing last summer by contributing two wagon loads--all of it grade A scrap--but we hope that they will do even better this time. Tin cans, bottle caps and cost hangers are not wanted. Cobb pointed out, since experience this summer proved that they were more of an annoyance than a benefit...