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Born in Baltimore, Marie Schultze won her R.N. in three years' hard work at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, was sent to Chile in 1927 by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. In Santiago, she turned an old artist's studio in the slums into a six-bed clinic. To persuade the poor, superstitious women that they should have their children at the clinic, tall, good-natured Nurse Schultze gave free care for the first six months of her new enterprise in charity...
...into fried chicken, roast beef, short ribs, fish, seven vegetables, five kinds of bread, ice cream in three flavors, and two cakes. Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...
...renascence of sprightlier activity. In Los Angeles one Jim Moran, who had once sold an icebox to an Eskimo, was sitting on an ostrich egg. He wore a feather headdress, a pair of "hatching pants" and thought he would bring forth a small ostrich in 25 days. Newark had a "pants burglar," who came in through windows like a wraith, left a penny on the floor for his victims. In Ellensburg, Wash, an ex-cowpuncher named Larry Hightower was preparing to push a wheelbarrow around the world...
...stations, travelers read the signs that warned of delays, heard loudspeakers blare warnings that arrivals were not guaranteed. But they bought their tickets as usual. Out of Chicago's Union Station chuffed the Pennsylvania's Washington flyer, Liberty Limited, booked almost solid, as usual. In Newark a commuter electric train pulled out for its dank run through the Hudson River tubes to Manhattan. But out went a notice: that would be the last Hudson & Manhattan train to New York City...
Blond, 200-lb. Russian Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, who had chartered a DC-4 in Newark last week and had flown down with his wife and two children, seemed more embarrassed than pleased by the flamboyant reception. He hastily denied a local Communist boast that he was Marshal Georgi Zhukov's nephew, said he merely shared the same name-"just as Fernandez is the name of your Foreign Minister and also that of a prize fighter, Antonio Fernández...