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Sirs: I notice in your issue of March 5 an item with reference to the Patman bill for the payment of soldiers' bonus. With reference to the 145th signature on the petition, you state: ''A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-Ib. Congressman from Lewiston, Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that he forgot his glasses case as he went back to sit down. It was his first claim to fame and not a newshawk in the gallery knew...
Late last week a first report, from the New York Essential Oil Co.. arrived in San Francisco. It was crushing. There was. it said, almost no market for ambergris. A fresh supply of 300 Ib. would glut the market, force the price down to from $2 to $5 an oz. But still crowds flocked to sift the sands of Bolinas and the Peppers, the Henrys, the Kenyons sat tight, held fast to their faith in miracles...
...handful of his employes stood in a circle last week in the company's one-story brick building in the malodorous gashouse district of Cambridge, Mass. In the middle of the room was a steel tank big enough to hold a pony. It was lined with i.ooo Ib. of frozen carbon dioxide, popularly called "dry ice." The temperature inside was somewhere between - 100° and - 110° F. The spectators waited to see a black-browed young daredevil risk his life for Science by get ting into that icebox and staying there for half an hour. Daredevil Mark Edward...
...years for a heavyweight championship fight, in the Miami arena last week, this was an amazing beginning. Weeks of intensive sneers in the Press had led them to believe that the bout between a 270-lb. champion from Italy and a challenger who was five years older and 86 Ib. lighter was as unfair as it sounded. Now, on a windy evening with rain pattering on rows and rows of empty $20 seats, they became aware that the spectacle under the warm cone of light at the centre of the Madison Square Garden stadium was an exciting contest between...
Born. To Joan Bennett Markey, 24, cinemactress, and Gene Markey. 38, scenarist: a daughter, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. Name : Melinda...