MissNathalieVintage
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Speaking of jokes, shouldn't that be a "pari-mutuel" friend?
Heh. I used to make a living ad-libbing jokes, and when you get a perfect setup, it's a conditioned reflex
Re the pari mutuel jokes - well done all.
They met at the track and my dad was on a date - those seem pretty solid facts, the rest, as you can tell, is probably lost to memory issues.
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A Queens workman was slowly sucked to his death in a 200-ton heap of coal yesterday in the basement of a Manhattan office building. 32-year-old John Seery of Flushing, employed as a fireman at the New York Life Insurance Building at 51 Madison Avenue, slipped and fell down a coal chute while supervising a fuel delivery. When his body struck the fine buckwheat coal he began to sink into the pile of fuel as though it were quicksand. Men dug into the pile to try and keep Seery from becoming completely engulfed by the coal, and attempts were made to protect him from the weight of the coal with a wooden barrel and a metal ash can, but both were crushed under the weight of the fuel. Before Seery vanished completely into the pile, a doctor gave him an injection to numb the pain, and a priest summoned to the scene administered the last rites. The worker's dead body was finally extracted from the coal heap five hours after he fell down the chute....
....A man earning $22 a week may be ordered to pay $20 of that in alimony in an acrimonious divorce case now pending in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Mrs. Bertha M. Lewis of 1212 Ocean Avenue, a $44-a-week accountant for the city's Legal Department, accused her husband Sidney L. Lewis, automotive speciality salesman, of being a parasite who refuses to better himself. Mr. Lewis charges that Mrs. Lewis has humiliated him by earning more money than he does, but Mrs. Lewis maintains that Mr. Lewis refuses to take any steps to secure a better job, noting that he has failed twice in efforts to operate businesses of his own. Mr. Lewis further stated that Mrs. Lewis has refused to comply with his request that she quit her job and move with him to Florida, where the firm for which he sells is based, but Mrs. Lewis, pointing to his long record of financial irresponsibility, argued that even working in Florida he has failed to meet his obligations to his son. The matter of alimony will be settled when the case actually comes to trial....
...Football Dodgers owner Dan Topping has taken his physical examination for the Army, and expects to be called up shortly for military service. Mr. Topping has a low draft number, and is one of the most prominent sports figures likely to be taken this year under the conscription law. The grid impresario is married to skating film star Sonja Heine, and the fact that she has independent means of support means that he has already been assured of a 1-A draft classification....
What about the big kiss Hu Shee gave Terry just before she left. Terry seems to be ignoring the significance of that.
...The $10,000,000 super-drydock to be constructed by the U. S. Navy will be built at Bayonne, New Jersey, disappointing those who had campaigned to bring the project to the Brooklyn waterfront. New Jersey Governor Charles Edison announced the decision today, confirming that he had personally lobbied to bring the drydock to his state while he was serving as Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Edison resigned that cabinet post last spring in order to run for the office of Governor, to which he was elected last fall. A committee appointed by Brooklyn borough president John Cashmore had also lobbied for the project, but its presentation came up short....)
...A sixty-year-old Sanitation Department worker from Glendale was rescued today after falling into a sixty-foot-deep former incinerator pit in Woodside, now being used to store rock salt. Conrad Schmitt fell into the black chasm while helping to load salt to be used by snow-removal workers, and was pulled out by two firemen who were lowered into the pit on ropes. Schmitt suffered a fractured skull in the fall, and is reported in critical condition at St. John's Hospital in Long Island City....
...In Mexico City, a bullfight was disrupted yesterday by a raucous American woman who threw three pairs of colored panties at the matador. Carlos Arruza, matador, had just dispatched the bull when, to the accompaniment of the roars of the crowd, a young woman raced down from the grandstand to the edge of the ring, and pulled off three pairs of underpants -- colored red, white, and blue -- and flung them into his face. Police attempted to stop the woman, but the crowd shouted them down. The matador declared that he did not know the young woman, and her identity remains a mystery.
(Has anybody seen Sylvia Ageloff lately?)...
... "Sonja could play!"...