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HOLLYWOOD'S
There's a "crazy man" out in Hollywood with a profitable sideline — sawing up new cars.
by DOUGLAS NELSON RHODES
ONE DAY, just after the close of the war, a desk sergeant at a Hollywood, Calif., police station was startled by a phone call from an ex' cited citizen who reported an accident which seemed to require immediate attention. "Come at once," implored the breathless informant, "there's a crazy man here who's sawing his new car in half— a brand new car, and he's sawing it in half!"
The sergeant, then in his second year of waiting for delivery of a new car, took no chances. He dispatched men to the address with a warning to approach the suspect with caution. "Anybody who'd saw a new car in half these days," he warned, "is sure to be nuts!"
The officers found a balding man industriously at work with a hack saw, raising havoc with a glittering new ' coupe parked at the curb.
"Well, well," remarked the officer in charge soothingly as he eyed the partially dissected model. "Neat job of sawing you've done there — I'll bet it's lots of fun."
The auto vandal grinned. "It is kind of fun when you get the knack of it. Hard work, though. I've got two more new cars to saw up before nightfall." Then, seeing policemen converging on him from all directions, he exclaimed, "Hey, what's the matter?
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Is it against the law saw up his own car?"
"Not against the law, unusual nowadays," the replied. "Suppose you tell us what it's all about?"
"Sure. I'm Dick McWhorter, an assistant director at Paramount Pictures, but I've got a side line renting out cutaway sections of cars which the studios use in making trick shots. This one's going into a new Cary Grant film. Now, please tell me what the riot squad is for."
Today, Dick McWhorter 's neighbors no longer harbor the suspicion