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...interesting and informative. I think you may be willing to print this letter which combines thanks with slight correction or explanation of certain statements. I should like to let your readers know that by no means do I believe that "the international quality of true Socialism has to be soft pedalled in this country.'' I believe that it has to be carefully explained in language that American workers will understand. Because I am an international Socialist I do not regard my Socialism as in some strange way essentially unique and I have repeatedly avowed our immense indebtedness...
...uses for rubber. They have branched into everything from dirigibles to syringes, from road paving to toothbrushes. Last week B. F. Goodrich Co.'s subsidiary, Miller Rubber Products, announced that after six years of experimentation it had perfected a new rubber doll. Flesh tints are ingrained, the skin soft, the limbs flexible. There is no interior bracing to make it heavy and cumbersome. James Taylor, head of the doll division, says that it was first manufactured only in an 18-in. size, but that the cry for smaller sizes forced them to supply dolls down to 10 in. Dollman...
...Derby, Conn., Joe Soda, vendor of soft drinks, was arrested for violating the liquor...
Velvet Glove, There are two ways to play the Dictator. One may adopt the thundering voice and the imperial scowl like Benito Mussolini and his unsuccessful imitator Adolf Hitler, or one may pull the wires of diplomacy with the velvet gloves of a Metternich or Machiavelli. Soft-spoken General von Schleicher prefers velvet gloves. He still smiles and tells jokes, likes to stand shyly in the back row in group photographs of the Cabinet. He dislikes announcements and interviews. Last week when cornered by the New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall he was careful to doff his uniform...
...gives a description of a woman's every significant movement during parturition. He invented it while earning his M. A. degree in obstetrics & gynecology at Western Reserve University. Details of the Dodek device appeared in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics. Essentially it consists of a plunger which pushes against the soft rubber lid of an air container. Every movement of the plunger changes the air pressure in the container. The changing pressure agitates a pen which writes a zigzag line on a moving sheet of paper. An aluminum tripod holds the device so that the exposed end of the plunger rests...