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too respectful to expatiate on the elephantine effect his pajamas produced on a young man with the nickname of Slim. When a big news story breaks, competition among correspondents of individual papers is frequently ���erce and among correspondents of news agencies it is ferocious. I was thus able to believe a story about that night at Le Bourget, told me at the time, which I was unable to con���rm later. I pass it on without guaranteeing its authenticity but it is not at all improbable. According to this account, the chief correspondents of the Associated Press and the International News Service arrived at Le Bourget to discover that their opposite number of the United Press had preceded them, distributing legal tender in the right places to such good effect that all the air���eld���s phone booths (there were only six, which until then had proved suf���cient) were occupied by burly citizens instructed to keep the lines busy and to yield their places to no one not employed by the United Press. The representatives of the Associated Press and the International News Service decided on concerted action. Addressing themselves to taxi drivers who had brought customers to the ���eld and were waiting to take them back again, they hired twelve bruisers who outweighed the United Press���s men and assigned them to battle stations, with instructions not to act until the signal was given. There was no point in giving the enemy warning in time to permit a counteroffensive. When the United Press bureau chief came pelting into the room and seized the telephone from one of his HYLAND 12