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...Paint Brushes. To make up for missing Oriental pig bristle imports, Devoe & Raynolds Co., Inc. are conducting a national salvage campaign to reclaim old, paint-stiff paintbrushes at prices from 10? to $2 a brush, depending on size...
...winning the national grade-school spelling bee in Washington last week, eleven-year-old Richard Earnhart of El Paso, Tex. got $500 and a two-day trip to New York City. There he had his first brush with the metropolitan press, came off winner, hands down, over a flabbergasted World-Telegram reporter...
...comes from Portland, Ore., where the winters are rainy, Darrel Austin paints an imaginary world of endless oozy swamps and puddles, peopled with perky-looking animals and wraithlike beings half submerged in pools of water. His colors, laid on the canvas with a palette knife instead of a brush, are notable for their limpid transparency and eerie phosphorescence...
...would probably be friendly to an Allied expeditionary force. The main pastime of this race seems to be in getting inebriated on the local brands of beer and wine, and one of the most prized objects in this collection is a beard cleaner which the Ainu use to brush their beards free of liquor. Another object prized by the Peabody is the mummified body of King Shabataka, who is mentioned in the Bible in chapter 17 of the 2nd Book of Kings. On the same floor is a collection of several thousand skulls, one of the finest collections...
Webster omitted so many important bits of information that one begins to wonder about his personal loyalty. He might have stated (in the words of Dr. West, the Miracle-Tuft tooth brush man): "Take good care of yourself. . . . You belong to the U. S. A."; or at least hinted that Sealed Power Piston Rings help you "Save gas. Save oil! Save engine wear...