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Patients young & old at Manhattan's cityrun Bellevue Hospital marvelled one day last week at an oldster who arrived to entertain them for the publicity which all such charity performances are accorded by the city's press. He was ''Powder River Jack" Lee, a leathery, garrulous, honest-injun cowboy from the wild old West. Wearing a ten-gallon hat and brightly decorated chaps he sang rip-roaring cowboy songs in a voice which he says will carry 300 yards against the wind. He bucked and reared as if he were riding a snorting bronco. He played...
...which it has faith." "You will tie your hands if you adopt that!" cried Leader Henderson. Hoarse throats shut him up with shouts of "we want to tie your hands!" By a rising vote of acclaim Sir Charles Trevelyan's motion became law unto Laborites. He fired a powder train of resolutions in which the Congress voted last week to: I) Nationalize the Bank of Eng- land and the "Big Five" private banks; 2) abolish the House of Lords as "dangerous and unnecessary"; 3) maintain friendly trade relations with Soviet Russia; 4) bar from ever rejoining the Labor party...
...Please send me a powder puff, face cream and a lipstick. I don't want anything else but a bath. The bandits intend to keep moving until the pursuit ceases. Please persuade the police and soldiers to keep away, otherwise they say we will be killed...
Almost the only pure fun or vanity sanctioned last spring by Bolshevik Spar tans was the buying and using of lipsticks & rouges sold by petite, blonde Paulina Semionova Molotova, wife of Soviet Premier Molotov and Manager of "Tezhe," the Soviet powder, perfume, rouge & lipstick trust (TIME. June 13). Considered daring in the spring, Paulina Molotova was comparatively a back number when July rolled around, bringing its Annual Congress of Young Communists representing 5,500,000 Red maidens & swains...
Died. Electa Matilda Curtis Ziegler, 91, philanthropist, widow of the late William Ziegler, founder-president of Royal Baking Powder Co., foster mother of President William Ziegler Jr. of Great Island Corp.; of old age; in Manhattan...