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Johnston, onetime callboy, engine wiper, fireman and engineer on the Great Northern, had been a B. of L.E. official 16 years when he became its Grand Chief Engineer (a title he loves to roll on his tongue) in 1925. Besides the title, he also inherited the union's sour financial ventures-notably a bank and a $15,000,000 burst bubble in Florida real estate. His inaugural address: "I am no banker...
...third of them went on to graduate school at Harvard, Oxford, Duke, Columbia, etc., where 17% earned degrees. Although a little better than one-half of them went straight from college into journalism, the rest took first-jobs as teachers, clerks, pressagents, warehousemen, gas meter readers. One was "a wiper on a coastal steamer...
Stripped for Action. In Nora Springs, Iowa, town officials forked over $25 for running a truck with no headlights, no tail lights, no sidelights, no stoplights, no clearance lights, no identification lights, no flares, no red flags, no windshield wiper, no rear-view mirror, no license plates...
...windshield wiper for eyeglasses (originally introduced by Comic Ed Wynn, in The Perfect Fool...
Double Billing. In Port Washington, L.I., Margaret Denton apologized to her husband Michael after crows flew off with her clothespins. Michael had just come in with a story about losing his windshield-wiper to two crows who pried it loose and flew away with...