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...observant, he would prefer to spend all out-of-lab days at his farm in Chocorua, New Hampshire, with his wife, six year old son, five year old daughter, and fishing pole, than at any amusement which the city can offer. There he can putter around in his garden, fix the stone wall, or experiment in transplanting some esoteric kind of flower. As an old friend remarked, "He certainly can make an old azalia bloom...
...green emergency squad wagon from the Police Department drove up when a bomb made a direct hit on a one-story brick house, setting it on fire. Up drove a "catastrophe" ambulance from Bellevue with interns and nurses; up drove a red Consolidated Edison truck to fix broken gas mains and cables; a station wagon with "Mobile Blood Plasma Unit No. i" on the side...
...Congress. This was just the kind of advice the House Banking & Currency Committee was busy ignoring this week. Black-haired young Albert Arnold Gore of Tennessee was the exception: he began drafting a Baruch-like bill which would freeze farm prices at parity, fix all other commodities-and wages-at their Oct. 1 levels. But Gore was taking the lonesome road...
...said that it is necessary only for Roosevelt to revoke proclamations which fix combat areas into which American merchantment may not enter. If Congress disagrees, he pointed out, it can reinstate the combat areas by adoption of a concurrent resolution...
Many doctors favor declaring red-light districts out of bounds. Under the May Act, passed last June, the Secretary of War can fix zones in which prostitution is a Federal offense. So far Secretary Stimson has done nothing. Probably the law will be enforced only in sections where local officials refuse to do their own cleaning up. Another difficulty: like the Army, prostitutes have become mechanized. They move around in cars and trailers, can't be put off Federal roads...