Stowy the raft drifted with the flow of the sea. One of the ship-wrecked sailors looked into the sky "Cheer up," he called "we can't be far from civilization. A couple of bombers have, just gone over."
With U. S. Reporters Cuartie McCarthy, an Emporia, Kan., hardware merchant, took a lot of kiding in recent years, during the popularity of Edgar Bergen and his radio dummy, but the difficulty didn't stop with the hardware man. Ted McDaniel, Emporia "Gazette" sports editor who also is county coroner, was walking down the main street when he met a friend, who asked:
"Did you hear about Joe Louis being killed?"
"No," replied McDaniel. "How did it happen?"
"He was fighting with Amos 'n' Andy and Lightning struck him."
McDaniel was still thinking about it when he met another friend in the next block, who asked:
"Did you hear about Charlie' McCarthy's death?"
"You go to hell; I just bit on that Joe Louis gag," said McDaniel, who walked around to his office and learned Charlie McCarthy, the hard-were man, had died in a hospital.
Strange event in New York as headlined in the "Times" June 26:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.