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...staff woke up one morning--if it had gone to bed the night before--to find that the paper was 50 years old. It was a hard-earned maturity, and the Crimeds looked back with pride, as various and sundry thousands climbed on the bandwagon of congratulation...
Elizabeth Kenny, then 23, did the best she could. Strips of blanket, dipped in boiling water and wrung out, eased the child's pain so that she soon fell asleep. When she woke she cried: "I want them rags that wells my legs." Sister Kenny applied more of "them rags." Soon she applied them to five more stricken children in the neighborhood. A year later she could report to her physician friend, Dr. Aeneas McDonnell, that the children had recovered without paralysis...
...shock. Philadelphia's U.S. circuit court ruled that FPC had, indeed, injured Northeastern, ordered its plea for the whole market heard. Algonquin appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and went on building. But last October the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the appeal. Algonquin finally woke up to the realization that it had spent $40 million on a pipeline which it had no legal right to use. It begged FPC for a temporary "emergency" permit to finish the line...
Then he manfully made a confession about election night, 1952. He went to bed early aboard his campaign train, he said, but woke up about midnight to listen to the radio. What had he heard? Harry Truman lapsed into his famous mimicry of Radio Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn. For four years Truman has regaled his friends with his imitation of Kaltenborn's broadcast on election night, 1948, when Kaltenborn was stubbornly insisting that Tom Dewey was winning. Now the President's zip was undiminished as he mimicked the 1952 Kaltenborn hailing an Eisenhower victory. Only this time, said...
...child, Claire often woke up crying. She was afraid of wasps and of crossing a street. A cousin remembers that Claire "had a thing about being shy. She would ask for the butter in almost a whisper." Before Nazi bombs began raining on London in World War II, nine-year-old Claire and her mother were evacuated -first to the southern coast of England, then...