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...smog"-mixture of fog and smoke belched out by furnaces burning southern Illinois soft coal (TIME, March 4). To clear the air, the city recently passed an ordinance requiring smokeless fuel or the installation of equipment to burn soft coal smokelessly. Mining towns of south ern Illinois now vow they will boycott St. Louis merchants (who sell Illinois coal miners more than $50,000,000 worth of products a year...
...Drug Co., a divorced son-in-law of the late Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen. Formally Cinemactress Bryan's husband announced that his wife was through with pictures. Warner Brothers expressed bewilderment, resignation, doubt that movie-struck Jane Bryan would be able to live up to such a marriage vow so soon after her first big part (in We Are Not Alone...
...conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made his melodramatic vow to free the Spanish colonies in South America...
...trying to persuade his friend to come to his university as dean of its law school. Conservative Mr. Stearns, who had already made his mark in 17th Street, Denver's financial centre, was hard to persuade. At length Dr. Norlin exclaimed: "Better men than you have taken the vow of academic poverty!" Like many a better man before him, Mr. Stearns took the vow and went to Colorado...
Died. William Turner, 96, who was rejected by Union Army doctors in 1861 on the grounds that he had but a short time to live; in Mount Vernon, Ill. In 1896 Turner made a vow never to shave until William Jennings Bryan became President, went bearded to his grave...