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Lazy Homes. A stern moralist of 46, Judge Stout totally embodies her mother's motto: "Make yourself useful." Raised in Oklahoma, she whipped into third grade at the age of six, later taught school and then earned law degrees at Indiana University. In Philadelphia, she practiced criminal law, became an assistant D.A., and in 1959 overwhelmingly won election to a ten-year term on the county court. Barely 5 ft. tall, she peers from the bench atop three extra cushions and often keeps no-lunch court hours that make attendants mutter, "She's made of steel...
...pack resembles Pull Malt's, except that the Kiss of Death seal is a skull and crossbones and its motto in "A rose by any other name would small an sweet." One pack of Kiss of Deaths (or Kisses of Death) sells for 40 cents...
Because such business is more promising than shipbuilding, John Brown will be paying less and less attention to the sea. The changing emphasis will reflect its motto-Nee Sorte Nee Fato [Neither by luck nor destiny]-which Lord Aberconway amplifies by adding, "Rather by planning and good work...
Bernard Asbell is a salesman for Progress. He believes that the "whole new thing happening in America" is a good thing that will get even better as soon as people learn to trust it. The "whole new thing" is automation, and the motto Asbell wants to inscribe over the escalator to the future is (freely rendered) "materialistic mind over matter...
...prize is given annually to the U.S. citizen "whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify outstanding devotion to the ideals expressed in the West Point motto: 'Duty, Honor, Country...