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...departure, as he pointed out. The elegant old gentleman was found in his suite at the Plaza, his portmanteau packed, his mourning doves wrapped in clotted swiss, his head in a sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed on the wall. We begged the privilege of an interview. . . . Mr. Tilley let the comb drop into...
...Criminal Law & Criminology, issued last week. To implement his Plan he required a chart of the human mouth which all dentists in the U. S. might understand. None of the 38 dental schools of this country had such a chart. So Dr. Ryan designed his own. On a grey background the 32 teeth are shown 1) as they look from the front, with their roots outlined, 2) as they look from the inside of the mouth. On that design dentist or layman may clearly mark every peculiarity, filling, inlay, pivot tooth, bridge or plate in every mouth. Lest one human...
...last week that tireless journalistic tribune of the people, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, had gone far enough into the background of the sale to start a first class Missouri scandal. The Board of Fund Commissioners' official explanation of Baum, Bernheimer's third big bond purchase was that the State Bi-Partisan Advisory Board had recommended "immediate" sale of the bonds to pay for July and August construction work at State prisons, that a public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware...
...packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering in the background gave the new divine's nose a quick wipe. Chubby little Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr., aged 7, burst into a treble hymn, Something Got a Hold of Me, launched into a brisk sermon on "Hell, or God's Penitentiary...
Premier to keep in Japan's background and pursue a policy of bedseat driving, for everything depended on whether China's Dictator was now ready at last to risk in war with Japan his fine fleet of U. S. and Italian fighting planes and the German-trained Chinese regiments called "Chiang's Own." All these China's Dictator withheld from action at the time...