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...South African notables of her day. THROUGH MY OPEN DOOR - Lucia Whitney-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Story of the ten-year illness of a well-known U. S. novelist who writes under a pseudonym, gives her impressions of the affairs of her friends as they appeared to an emotional, poetic, bedridden observer...
...Rockies and at the foot of the Continental Divide, the ground trembled as with palsy. In ten days, 327 shocks of varying potency burst store windows, extinguished lights, crumpled a wall of Intermountain Union College's gymnasium, destroyed a National Biscuit warehouse, put to flight 150 bedridden patients in the Government's hospital at nearby Fort Harrison. When two people were killed, more than 40 injured, the population fled in a panic from Montana's capital, tented outside of town or slept in automobiles along open highways. To add to their fright and misery, snow came down...
...King, 13, of Salt Lake City recently titillated classicists by grouping some irregular Latin verbs with "u" stems into a ''fifth conjugation," making a plausible case for his "discovery." More versatile than most prodigies, he has also worked out an original demonstration of the fourth dimension (time). Bedridden since he fractured a knee playing hide-&-seek, he gets most fun out of chemical experiments...
...types. All had frosted toes. This condition depending not on exposure so much as on the syphilitic disease of the blood vessels which brings about the gangrenous disease. One of them was paretic enough to attempt suicide by throwing himself out of a window and at 45 is a bedridden pauper at the expense of the tax payer, an incurable brain syphilitic. The second had also frosted toes. He died of his gangrene and associated syphilis and never was near a chain gang. The third had frosted toes and is still running around the world with them...
Enthusiastic Georgians last week were predicting that the money would be raised, the Harris monument erected in time for his bedridden 81-year-old widow to see it. Sure to see it were Joel Harris' children: Mrs. Edwin Camp, wife of the Atlanta Journal's sports writer "Old Timer"; Joel Jr., president of Atlanta's Rotary Club; Lucien, in the insurance business; Evelyn, public relations counsel for Southern Bell Telephone Co.; and Julian, advertising manager of the Atlanta Constitution...