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Lima, Ohio (pop. 49,880) was all set this week for a realistic air-raid test. Twenty-five cops were ready to explode black powder bombs all around the city, ambulances were standing by, and civil-defense workers were waiting to care for the injured. Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were...
...Lyons' prescription: brush the teeth (salt and soda will do for a dentifrice) within "split minutes" after every meal, because sugar left in the mouth changes into acids within half an hour at most. "Carrying toothbrushes around ought to be just as acceptable as carrying combs, lipstick and powder...
...confused with Dr. (Israel) Lyon's line of tooth powder & paste...
Died. Joseph Wilshire, 71, former board chairman of Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee, Fleischmann's yeast and gin, Royal gelatin and baking powder) ; after long illness ; in Greenwich, Conn. Beginning as a $1-a-week yeast packer for Fleischmann's, he became its president 27 years later, stayed on as president when it merged with Standard Brands. He built up perhaps the country's finest collection of coaches, phaetons, cutters and sleighs, which he habitually used for traveling about his Greenwich estate...
...make an on-the-spot investigation to find out whether McCall's version or Irvin's was true. At week's end, a coroner's jury upheld Sheriff McCall, finding that he had fired in self-defense, and a state investigator displayed powder burns on McCall's coat sleeve which showed, he said, that McCall's arm was doubled up, indicating that there had been a struggle. But the FBI continued its own investigation...