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Mayor Charles O'Brien of Peoria, Mayor W. O. Summerfield of East Peoria, Illinois' Representative Everett M. Dirksen and a thousand people crowded around the little Fond du Lac State Bank in East Peoria one morning last week. Inside, before the bank opened to the public, a scrawny bespectacled widow in a cotton dress marched up to a cage marked "CASH F. D. I. C. ORDERS HERE," posed for photographers. In her hand she held a check for $1,250, her life savings, which W. Kenneth Hayes behind the counter had just given her. "I don't know...
...entomologist, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens means so many ladybird beetles-small, black-stippled yellow inhabitants of California's high Sierras, fond of eating the eggs of the vegetable aphis (louse) which is a scourge of most truck farmers. To Robert Bogue, who is both an entomologist and a businessman, 10,000,000 Hippodamla convergens last week meant the biggest order yet received for his chief stock-in-trade...
Tall, lean, with clipped mustache, close-set eyes, Thomas Mann is dry of face and manner; his movements are almost feminine. His few intimate friends he can count on the fingers of one hand. He likes comfort, order, a settled family life. He was so fond of his dog Bashan that he wrote a biography of him (A Man-and His Dog, 1919). A slow worker, it took him two and a half years to write Budden-brooks, twelve years for The Magic Mountain, some ten years for the first part of Jacob and His Brothers. Because he is mildly...
...baked them myself. Oh yes, and the cookies, I baked those too. You see, both my father and my mother insisted all their daughters learn to cook. We were allowed in the kitchens when we were finished with our lessons, and I enjoyed cooking. King Boris is very fond of home cooked meals...
Proud of Britain, fond of the U. S., Reporter Bullen found time and energy to be an indefatigable organizer of hands-across-the-sea movements. He started the American Shakespeare Foundation, helped the late Otto H. Kahn raise $1,000,000 to rebuild the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. He raised $300,000 for destitute Belgians, $5,000 for a memorial to Antarctic Explorer Scott, $15,000 "to provide pensions for necessitous grandnieces" of Charles Dickens. He organized the League of Remembrance of the U. S., to join with Great Britain in observing a two-minute silence...