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Unlike most publications giving this news, you took occasion to effectively explain in a footnote that the National Life Insurance Co. of Montpelier, Vt., was in no way involved in this receivership...
...plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures of great effectiveness. Two months ago Sculptor Barnard, with plaster in his hair, tried to explain all this to a puzzled interviewer...
...simplest way to explain it is to say that we have put knees on our automobiles. Each front wheel will be attached individually to the chassis by its own soft spring. When it encounters a bump or a hole, it will rise or fall independently, as your leg is lifted or straightened by its knee without affecting your other leg or the equilibrium of your body. The result will be that the wheel, not the passenger, will...
...Although only four years old, the New Indoor Athletic Building had become inadequate for the present needs of the University," said Norman W. Fradd, the director of that building. Mr. Fradd did not explain further in what way facilities had proven insufficient...
...William Samuel Fitzpatrick, chairman of Prairie Oil, then a Sinclair competitor but later merged, was paid $300,000 out of the pool's profits although he had no interest, Mr. Cutten could not explain. "All we know, then," remarked Inquisitor Pecora, exasperated, "is that it wasn't made at Christmas time, so it couldn't have been a Christmas gift...