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...beasts were feeling better, and the Barcelona zoo promised them a home. The midget, weak and undernourished, was installed in a home in Ciudad Real. All that remained of the abandoned circus was Sweikof the fox terrier, who lay down before the wagon of his absent master, and mournfully refused...
They thus bested the Northern city bosses: Tammany Hall's Carmine DeSapio, Chicago's Jake Arvey and Pittsburgh's Dave Lawrence. The bosses' candidate, Philadelphia City Councilman James A. Finnegan, was absent, recuperating from gall-bladder surgery. Lawrence explained with the sincerest form of flattery: "Why, he just had the same operation that Adlai Stevenson had." Later, at a meeting of committeemen from the Western states, Lawrence tried again. Said he: "I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I just wonder how many men in this room haven't had gallstones...
...Ickes worked tirelessly, stirring up enthusiasm for a third-term nomination for F.D.R. This effort, however, came to an unhappy end-for Ickes. When he arrived in Chicago for the convention, he found Harry Hopkins set up in the Blackstone Hotel, acting as convention manager for the absent President. Wrote Ickes of Hopkins: "Here he was sitting at the throttle and directing the movement that I had started and had kept hammering away at until it swept through the country like a cyclone...
...been absent from the White House for 64 of the 96 days since Congress adjourned last August. *Ellis Slater, president of Frankfort Distillers Corp.; George Allen, Washington lawyer and friend of Presidents; Colonel Thomas Belshe (ret.), former Army pal; and their wives...
More mysterious than the red or white cells are the blood's tiny platelets (one twenty-five-thousandths in. in diameter, 200,000 to the cu. mm.) Nobody knows quite how they work, but they are essential to blood clotting. When they are absent, as in certain types of leukemia the patient may die from internal bleeding through microscopic holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins...