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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1959
Page
6
An array of brief gags and anecdotes follows a travel whiff of humor ending with a corn husk wisdom. A Canadian railway advertises 300 sleepers at once while other vignettes feature a pastor's congregation, a boastful driver, a student essay joke, a newborn boy joke, a weight and height remark, two miners trading words, a coin toss lunch verdict, and a farmer’s cotton question.
A teacher asks why a bear cannot remove his coat, and a child jokes only God knows where the buttons are. John L. Lewis recounts two coal miners once inseparable friends, one with minimal schooling, the other college educated, who later had a falling out.
A snippet shows two neighbors discussing door access on a third floor flat. One asks to press the bell button with an elbow, the other questions use of the hand and whether arriving empty-handed is acceptable.
A suburbanite steps off a train looking deathly ill and explains he gets sick when he rides backwards. His wife asks why he did not swap seats with the person opposite. He replies there was nobody sitting there.
Chicago report details micro sleep as brief lapses of attention during prolonged wakefulness. In a Times Square broadcast stunt, radio DJ Peter Tripp endured 201 hours 13 minutes awake, showing flashes of unconscious rest while remaining outwardly active.
Researchers observed Tripp during a wake-athon with brain wave tests and a team of scientists using multiple instruments. The study material is being analyzed for scientific publication. Dr L Jolyon West presented the first report to colleagues.
The article notes University of Oklahoma psychiatrist and Dr Har old L Williams discuss Walter Reed psychologist Dr West who studied why fliers confessed to germ warfare. West argues sleep deprivation caused delusions and temporary insanity during long interrogations, exemplified by disk jockey Tripp’s 3am to 11am cycle and daily drowsiness.
Doc Anklam quips money helps seek happiness in curious places. Alvira Fears cites alimony as bounty on mutiny in divorce. A husband jokes she is too dumb to frost a cake. Life requires spade work for roses. Youth brightens homes with light. Two kinds of men never get far: those who do nothing told and those who do nothing else.
Authorities nabbed six boys aged 10 to 13 who looted businesses over six months in Streeter North Carolina. Sheriff Pete Butzwiller described the spree with all town spots hit except the Streeter bank, which the boy claimed they could not miss and showed two rolls of coins as proof.
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