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After the big snow I located my set of wheels by the red plastic tip on the antennae which barely protruded from the drifts. But when I approached it I saw that the police had tunneled in their cute way to the right windshield wiper. Adding insult to injury they tied the tag to the rubber part of the wiper with a knot any boatswain would have admired. It defied knives and fingernails. Finally, I stripped it off and the rubber left the wiper like a peel leaving a banana...
...ensuing disturbance, one police squad car had three of its tires deflated and its license plates, windshield wiper and gas tank cap taken. The only other police casualty was a plainclothesman who was punched in the teeth; his assailant escaped into the crowd before he could be apprehended...
Died. James Henry ("Dress-Shirt Jimmy") Thomas, 74, British labor leader who was forced to resign from the Cabinet in 1936 for tipping off friends on budget secrets; in London. Starting as a railroad engine wiper in his early teens, Thomas led his first strike at 15, rose to be head of the powerful National Union of Railwaymen, became a Laborite M.P., served in five Cabinets, was slated for the peerage when the budget scandal broke...
...with Hiss. Chambers' new testimony showed an amazing knowledge of Alger Hiss's private life. With meticulous precision, Chambers described the interior of three houses and one apartment occupied by Hiss. He remembered a car Hiss had once owned-an old jalopy with a hand-operated windshield wiper. He recalled that Mrs. Hiss,* like himself, was a Quaker. Once, said Chambers, Hiss had told him a boyhood story of using a child's wagon to peddle bottled spring water to the neighbors...
Since the war, drive-ins have also multiplied their technical refinements. The sound, which in the first movie parks issued sometimes from staggered loudspeakers, sometimes from underground grilles, is now brought into the family car over small portable speakers. This device, with the help of a good windshield wiper, brings the show through clearly even during pelting rainstorms (though fog is still a bugbear); and some northern drive-in managers are dreaming that a new combination heater-speaker will enable them to keep going all winter...