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...While fishing (for the first time in his life) and trying to hook savage snook in the Florida Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene of the splash: an 18-ft. alligator usually found lolling there. Later, when his guide careened the boat in too tight a 180° turn, all aboard got dipped. Muttered plucky Dick Nixon, snookless, bedraggled and amazed: "I didn't think it could happen twice...
...everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after day and what do you do? Once a week you swagger in with a paycheck") to the college (president to professor: "Nonsense, Professor, you don't need a raise . . . You're too absent-minded to drive a car, too intelligent to want television, and too preoccupied to hear your wife complain"). From Little Acorns. Chicago-born Cartoonist Lichty has been making a living at a drawing board ever since he graduated from the University of Michigan ('29), after editing the college humor...
...help both in speed and efficiency. Wrote Wason: "The movements consisted of a rhythmical swaying of the trunk backwards and forward, with rapid folding of the ends of the papers and tapping and shaking of the soap. Rotation of the head was also observed. These movements were absent in new employees . . . however, the habit gradually developed after training. It was found that the greater the jigging the greater was the woman's efficiency . . . Rhythm is a help in any kind of repetitive work, and the rhythm in this occupation probably develops in an attempt to increase speed [since workers...
...Boston's North Station last week, at the annual meeting of the Boston & Maine Railroad, the most important man was not there. Absent was Wall Street Financier Patrick B. McGinnis, who won control of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad a year ago and now was out after control of the B. & M. But he dominated the meeting nevertheless. Even before B. & M. officials counted the proxies, they were ready to admit defeat. Both Board Chairman Edward S. French and President Timothy G. Sughrue resigned in expectation of a McGinnis victory; they were afraid that if they stayed...
...slaughtered M.I.T. 22 to 0 earlier in the week, although one doubtful starter will be Oxford Blue Lionel Bryer, who has an injured back. Flyhalf Jerry Marsh, who ruptured an ear drum in the Tech Kennedy, a veteran of last year's side, returns in the place of the absent Terry Turner...