The Archive · 1941

IN PARENTHESIS

Terrible Effects

"Ir a young man is disappointed in love, his teeth may decay in a few months," he said—Dr. E. F. Briggs, quoted in "Tim As though he'd care!

76

Swortty after the transfusion Na Pus recovered and met and married him... Recently they had the first of their planned 76 blessed-events—Walter Winchell in the San Francisco "Chronicle."

A stert is a start.

Reproof cruising through Harlem, two cops in a police car overtook a Bantam coupe whose weaving movements clearly revealed that the driver was unfit to handle a car even of that size. The Bantam was ordered to halt, and when it did the man in it was told he would have to ride in the police car to a station house with one of the cops, while the other followed in the Bantam. The police car sped away and the Bantam sterted off at a slower rate. After driving for a few blocks in this unfamiliar vehicle, the cop behind the wheel, unable to see very much through the miniature windshield, turned a corner and headed down a one way street the wrong way. Nothing unusual would have happened, probably—there wasn't much traffic—if the officer hadn't stopped the Bantam in the midst of a bunch of large, tough-looking boys halfway down tre block. They surrounded the car silently, calmly picked it up, turned it around in mid-air, set it down gently, and pushed it off in the right direction, patting the fenders in a kindly, compassionate

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