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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Miss Doris La Rue, who injured another woman when she tossed assorted furnishings out of a Detroit hotel window during a Willkie parade (TIME, Oct. 14), was not on Relief last week. Having resigned her RFC job, she was looking for another, expecting to find one. Out on bond, she was also awaiting trial on a charge of felonious assault...
...swank Mayfair shops, "National Topcoat Week" followed "National Fur Week" and autumn buying continued brisk. Enough timid shoppers stay at home to have doubled the business of London mail-order firms since break of World War II, but a daily tide of some 5,000 shoppers and window-gazers flowed down Oxford Street last week. Most ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line...
Following the President was a hard job. He arrived behind schedule at South Station and was rushed on his way, protected on all sides by Secret Service men. Immediately before his train arrived, one ostensibly his drew in. With plainclothesmen in every window, it stayed on the track next to the one on which the real car arrived...
WIRING DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO USE AUTOMOBILE WINDOW STICKERS READING NO FIRST TERM...
...Tonopah, Nev., Mrs. Emery Garrett found a coyote prowling among her turkeys, yelled "Shoo!" It did - through a window of her house into the bathtub, where Mrs. Garrett's nephew, Harry Lewis, shot the baffled creature dead...