Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

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Look carefully for hangnails, and remove leaving a smooth edge. Reduce the cuticle at the base of the nail to expose as much as possible of the half moons. Use the flat end of the orange stick and gently press back upon the finger the cuticle that has grown upward on the lower section of the nail. Brilliant nail polishes are very popular, and the shade you select is a matter of personal choice. For summer bathers there are waterproof polishes that come in many distinctive shades. Begin today to correct any of the small faults that are destroying the beauty of your hands, because many folks judge your character by your hands. Chicago Breezes {Continued from page 51) THE CHICAGO FIRE In the radio reports of the |8,000,000 stock yards fire which Chicago suffered earlier this summer were many amusing little bits of human interest. Most of the broadcasting was, of course, serious: reports of damage done, devastation. And some of those reports were grossly exaggerated and garnished with too much heroics and hysteria on the part of the radio reporters. But some of it was very human and some of it amusing. . . . John Harrington of WGN interviewed one of the firemen on the job. "Is this the biggest fire you ever saw?" asked Harrington. "Hummph," grunted the fireman. "What do you estimate the damage to be?" asked Harrington. "Hummmph," grunted the fireman. Then a thought struck him. He reached over to the mike. Harrington thought that at last the guy was going to give his radio audience some fiery wisdom, something authoritative on the conflagration. But what the fireman said into the mike was: "If my wife is listening in please bring me some clean clothes . . . and something to eat!" Clem Lane, veteran reporter of The Chicago Daily News, got on Hal Totten's NBC mike: "Saturday afternoon on an afternoon paper that doesn't publish Sundays is like Sunday on the farm. But when the two-eleven fire alarm came in the boys quit their bridge game and went to work. The firemen discovered a brewery near the fire. They saved the brewery— kept hoses playing water on it. The brewery has been sending out trucks with beer on tap for them ever since." Someone whose name we didn't catch: "Fear on some faces . . . worry. But the kids are loving it. One gang of boys is already back at its baseball game. These kids are tickled. Because the fire is just a block away the police are routing traffic around their street . . . and the street is wide open with no traffic to spoil their game!" Harold Isbell on Columbia: "People are going around with wet handkerchiefs tied around their mouths. In the eerie light of the flames they seem to be attending a holdup men's convention." Ted Weems, the orchestra leader, is an inveterate fire chaser. He dashed for the south side at the first alarm. A block from the flames he stopped to get gas for his car. But the attendant refused to open his tank. He was afraid the burning embers flying around might blow them both up. As Ted rode back toward his downtown hotel he heard the radio announce that gas station had just gone up in smoke. A girl named Margaret Casey auditioned at Radio Station WAAF in the stock yards that afternoon. She left the studios with the station staff just before the building was gutted by flames. She moved back to a nearby shed and watched from there until firemen forced her to move still farther back. The shed burned to the ground. She ate in a restaurant nearby. Later, that burned down too. Now Margaret is pretty well cured of the broadcasting bug. "Gee, if they make things that hot for me just when 1 do a little tiny audition just think what might happen if I got on a big network program!" Another girl got near a mike and yelled: "I came in all the way from Riverside to see this fire. Golly, its swell!" before the announcer could guard his mike from her. 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