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Cartoonist Percy Crosby ("Skippy"): "The only time I ever shall bend a knee to a third-term impostor will be before a firing squad...
Like many another doctor, I had noticed for a number of years the gross inaccuracies and scientific fallacies which appeared with alarming regularity in medical pictures. I resolved that given the chance, I would bend every effort through the powerfully suggestive medium of pictures to present illness and its treatment in as educative and accurate a manner as possible...
...bend on Florida's wide, meandering, moss-fringed St. Johns River, where once only loglike alligators drowsed, a big bird alighted last week. It carried the Navy's crinkle-eyed Air Chief Jack Tow ers. Startled alligators gave the spot a wide berth. Less than a twelvemonth before, the bend had been a National Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked...
...weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones in a game supposed to have taken place in 1913. In 1940 spectators with weightier matters on their minds may have a hard time taking seriously for an hour and thirty-eight minutes the Warners' solemn anxieties about the South Bend ball club...
...gateway to Alaska and the Orient." And proud is Seattle of great, 20-mile-long Lake Washington, which Seattle considers hers although it stretches far beyond the city limits. Lake Washington is beautiful but sometimes a nuisance. Seattle's main gateway to the east is North Bend on the Sunset Highway, until recently a 42-mile ride. The road could have been 14 miles shorter had not Lake Washington lain athwart...