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When plans were drawn for converting the old Blücher Palace in Berlin into the U.S. Embassy, architects included a "powder room" for visiting ladies. Last week Gestapo agents marched into the Embassy with a copy of the architects' plan in which "powder room" was literally translated Pulverkammer. They demanded to see it, accusing the Embassy of storing munitions. They were shown to the ladies...
Sued for Divorce. Harry Richman, 45, veteran revue and nightclub minstrel; by thrice-married ex-Follies Beauty Hazel Forbes, 31, whose second husband, Tooth-Powder Tycoon Paul Owen Richmond, left her his Dr. Lyons' fortune in 1932; in Stuart...
Nine years ago, Nobelman Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute isolated the A substance, discovered that it was a crystalline carbohydrate. Last week, Drs. Witebsky & Klendshoj reported that they had isolated the B substance, also a starchy powder, from gastric juice and animal tissues...
...maintenance shops were being assembled for the rusty, work-worn trucks of China's highway system. Road-building equipment was en route. So were medical supplies. Steel for the construction of a new Yunnan-Burma railway was promised. Most important news of all to China's powder-grimed riflemen: ordnance and arsenal equipment was being given them...
...spoiled the countryside; the creeks turned into muddy sewers; pigs fed on the bodies of war horses. The boys from Covington built a fort, stole black powder, and shot nails and gravel at the kids from Newport across the Licking River. The Newport boys stole revolvers and shot at the kids from Covington when they went swimming. One of Dan's friends shot a Newport boy with a shotgun load of nails and gravel. "We did not understand," said Dan Beard, ". . . why it was wrong for the boys to fight when all the men of the nation were fighting...