A PEDESTRIAN crossed a traffic-filled street while looking up at an aeroplane overhead. Three buses shaved him so closely that his beard didn't appear again for a week, the wind from six passing cars raised the nap on his last year's suit, one five-passenger car removed the shine from the back of his left shoe, and the drivers of seven other assorted makes, while stripping their gears in an effort to avoid him, also stripped their vocabularies of every known high-powered adjective. After stumbiing over the kerbstone on the farther side of the road, the pedestrian was heard to murmur. *My gracious those airmen lead dangerous lives." M a Erich, Little By Little Now meet Erich, the latest world's champion eater who has just gate-crashed into the feeding records, Erich is a Munich furniture remover.
Usually he starts with the table and removes everything on it Twenty-four large-sized meat pies. with six quarts of beer are just a snack for Erich. When a Berlin newspaper man interviewed him on. the secret of his success, he sighed and said simply; "Please pass the mustard."
Erich, who weighs over 19-stone, has never had indigestion in his life, fever uses a ser-vidette or has been known to leave twopence under a plate.
His only ambition now is to make the swastika knitted on the front of his pullover the biggest in Germany.
—Yorick in the "Sunday Chronicle."
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