Evening star. [volume], July 22, 1956, Page 18, Image 133

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compensate for frequency drift and spectrum modulation."
Oddities In the News
The Philadelphia Police Academy has a
skeleton in the closet which Is used to train
rookie cops in first aid.
A Manhattan shoeshine boy, nicknamed
Hercules, has a novel way of earning nickels
and dimes from bar patrons. He bites the
caps ofT beer bottles and crushes beer cans
with one hand.
A “charm” store in Corpus Christi, Tex.,
sells weird objects to gamblers, who “use”
them as lucky charms. Carried in stock are
claws of lions, and more than 150 bottles of
romance-stimulating perfumes.
A Queens, N. Y., man’s hobby is collecting
witty sayings and amusing stories. Although
he has more than 1 million jokes, his wife
claims he’s never yet laughed at one of them.
A Detroit, Mich., upholsterer has returned
to the owners some things found in furniture
he had worked on. Diamond earrings, a
SIO,OOO check and a lizard were among the
items.
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A Florida man dreamed up a publicity stunt
that proved successful—an elephant on water
skis!
A genial Houston, Tex., gent is a self
appointed emcee. Daily he goes through the
bus loaded with office workers asking their
names, introducing them to each other and
making quips all during the ride. He says,
‘You can have a long, tedious ride, or you
can sing.” Sing they do.
A New York City bakery features “divorce
cakes” with just one figure on top.
Books in the Harvard Club library have a
way of disappearing fast. The librarian now
displays the jackets of the books only, and
in some of the jackets are cards saying:
"Missing—Please Return.”
They’re experimenting on a car powered by
a free piston engine, which pumps hot gases
through a pipe to a turbine that drives the
rear wheels. The engine will burn animal,
vegetable or mineral oil.
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THE SUNDAY STA« MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON. D. C., JUIY 22. 1936
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Star Photo bj Bwood Baker
Workday Pin-Up
JOAN M. WILLIAMS, 22, and red-haired, Is secretary to
Kenfield Bailey, chief of the Finance Branch, Bureau
of Mines, Interior Department, with offices at C street
N.W., between Eighteenth and Nineteenth. It’s a pursuit
she started three years ago fend plans to stay with.
Her work, far removed from coal and other minerals,
has to do with the design and layout of graphic material
which the bureau makes up for manuals of instruction.
It’s technical and exacting, and Joan likes it.
Naturally, she is interested In art and design. She
has done some posing for artists. She made the cover of
the C. & P Telephone Co. magazine and decorated her
own apartment in Ogden Gardens, 1445 Ogden street N.W.,
and bought the furniture to match. She would like to
design her own clothes. Now enrolled in night-school
courses in art at George Washington University, she will
be in summer school there.
Native of Jersey City, she came to Washington eight
and a half years ago and finished elementary education
at Eastern High. In spare time she likes literature,
novels and shorter fiction, and history, and Is working on
a collection of records. Her popularity extends not only
to the Bureau of Mines but the whole Interior Department.
QUENTIN R. MOTT
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Answer to
"Who Is This?"
The little boy shown on
page 4 and the balding
gentleman at the left are
one and the same. He
is Deputy Police Chief
John J. Agnew, head of
the District's traffic divi
sion and a valued aide of
Police Chief Robert V.
Murray. The picture was
made in his office.
Star Stall Photo