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Since his western trip was to be in the nature of a political reconoissance for the 1936 campaign, the President summoned to his mother's house last week some of his ablest advisers. Among those to pull up chairs in the Presidential study at Hyde Park were Postmaster General Farley, Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson, Publisher Julius David Stern of Philadelphia, and Charles C. Pettijohn. the cinema lawyer who last year directed California's Stop-Sinclair movement...
Cardinal of Charity. When Apostolic Delegate Cicognani and Bishop Schrembs were in the presence of Cardinal Hayes last week they took care to pull their mantellettas over their lace tunics. Reason: these symbols of their jurisdiction were nullified by the presence of the representative of the supreme jurisdiction of the Pope. Thus complete was the honor given last week to a churchman who says with Christian pride: "I was born very humble...
...hour the terrified little parachute-jumper tried to stave off the advances of the baseballer. Finally he was pinned to the floor, blood-smeared and near exhaustion. Then Pilot Mulqueeny realized: "It was either the three of us or just one. I left the controls and tried to pull Koenecke down. . . . Finally I grabbed the fire extinguisher. I walloped him over the head with it." A dozen times, Mulqueeny bashed the wild man, splashing blood and extinguishing fluid all over the cabin walls. At last Koenecke slumped into a heap. Just in time. Pilot Mulqueeny jumped back to his controls...
...depicting death and disaster for practically everyone else (TIME. Sept. 16). Instead of printing the cartoon on schedule, the Spokesman-Review held it over, ran it, by mistake, on the same front page that carried the news of something very serious happening to Huey Long. Before the paper could pull it out of late editions, many a shocked reader got the idea that the cartoon had been drawn to accompany the report of the assassination...
...sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends of an artery together: put draw strings through each end of the artery: pull until the circular edges acquire a triangular shape; bend the flaps outward; put the two triangles together; hem the fringe of flaps together. The inside of the artery is now smooth; hence no blood clot will form there...