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...Democratic National Chairman was feeling rotten. Bob Hannegan recently had a lot of teeth pulled. Now he was convalescing in the Arizona Biltmore, in Phoenix, with tender gums and a sore throat. The telephone rang, and added to his sufferings a headache from Washington...
...rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work, ceilings would. No cotton patriot thought Bowles could win that fight. Oklahoma's cotton-loving Senator Elmer Thomas growled ominously: "OPA is cutting its own throat...
Buzz-Bomb. In Kingston, Jamaica, when E. M. Mamby yawned, a wasp zoomed down his throat, stung a tonsil...
...officer hurriedly adjusted a wire. Again Sir Archibald shouted: "Can you hear me?" Half a thousand throats yelled: "No!" The other half-thousand cried: "Yes." General Mansergh stepped into the breach, bellowed: "I want one man to answer and only one. Third man from the left in the last row in the balcony-can you hear the Ambassador?" A lonely voice piped: "No." Again someone fiddled with the wires. For the third time Sir Archibald cleared his throat...
...somebody her life story. It was quite a tale. Her mother, she told Slick, had first drunk herself into a stupor with crème de cacao and curaçao, then ran away with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium for alcoholics; her uncle still languished in the state penitentiary. The relatives who raised Susan were "a whole gibbering pack of unknowns, all drunken, all semi-criminal, all diseased." Prudish Susan was so overcome by the "beautiful luxury of grief...