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...Folks He Loved. By the time the ladies arrived at the Statler for luncheon they were a little more subdued. They had ridden around town for 3½ hours. They had made a bargain-basement attack on the Statler's powder rooms. They had somehow swept 25 non-Kunkel ladies along into the dining rooms with them, thereby complicating the seating arrangements and causing some bad tempers. But when Congressman Kunkel reappeared they immediately and happily sang, to the tune of Bell Bottom Trousers...
Though an avalanche that obliterated the prepared course caused a postponement of the contest from Saturday to Sunday, it "put a couple of feet of powder snow on the slope and thus improved racing conditions," Taylor asserted...
Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...
...everything from motherhood to swimming. A trained nurse teaches expectant mothers what to expect, talks them out of old wives' tales. After a wife has her baby, she graduates into classes on infant and child care, given by experts. In evening classes, expectant fathers can learn to bathe, powder and diaper rubber dolls...
...voices. Slowly, fumblingly, the men divided up, began feeling their way back down the tunnel. When they reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped and died before they were forced back. Finally, hardly able to walk, they made it back...