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Show UP HIS SLEEVE I Former Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones regaled a group of friends at a party in Washington with this yarn from the Pacific war zone: "A magician, traveling on a troopship, troop-ship, had his pet parrot with him. Whenever the magician performed his sleight of hand stunts the parrot began a running fire of observations and kept them up throughout the act "Finally, their ship was torpedoed and sunk. Magician and parrot found themselves together on a life raft. After they had been floating around for hours, the parrot said in disgust: 'All right, all right, I give Mp. What did you do with the ship?" |