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...traditional bloc of 110,000 to 130,000 machine-turned votes. They were Horace Edwards, 46, former mayor of Richmond, who broke with the machine last year when Byrd tried to keep Harry Truman's name off Virginia's ballot ; and Remmie L. Arnold, a pen & pencil maker and inveterate "joiner" (he is slated to become Imperial Potentate of the Shrine...
...representing many clients, took part in the melodramatic hunt for evidence, which the German secret service tried desperately to cover up. One bizarre episode concerned a Czarist Russian adventurer, Count Alexander Nelidoff, who said he had documents linking the German government with the Black Tom saboteurs. McCloy plucked a pencil from Nelidoff's vest pocket to take some notes. The Russian gasped in horror, snatched the pencil back, explained that it was a tiny pistol loaded with gas pellets which could quickly asphyxiate everybody in the room. Later, checking with British Intelligence, McCloy found out that Nelidoff...
Interned by the Nazis, Expatriate O'Brady taught herself to draw by doing pencil portraits of other inmates. After her release, she began exhibiting neat, sweet Paris street scenes, garnished with wandering nudes and airplanes decked in flowers. In a Paris jaded with more sophisticated art, her simplicity hit the spot. Wrote one critic: "The only great painter of the New World" (TIME...
...TIME correspondent) of the fact that a Birmingham, Ala. housewife had apparently invented a sewing machine needle that would unrip a seam in the same time that it took to sew it. If true, the Abraham & Straus-man said later, "this needle was what an eraser is to a pencil...
...knowing what was good and what was poor in his paper. Part of self-education is to profit by one's own mistakes. Seniors in particular, preparing for General Examinations, can benefit enormously by reviewing old bluebooks. In other words, the same technique used by conscientious section men who pencil marginal comments in hour exams, should be extended to finals...