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...years Mrs. Ada Littlejohn has been a Gilbert & Sullivan addict. She has heard nearly every London performance, thought little of traveling to Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow to hear others. This week the D'Oyly Carte players gave their 100th Manhattan performance. For Mrs. Littlejohn, who goes five times a week, it was the 62nd. Singers in the company have come to regard the small white-haired lady as their mascot. She knows each time they make a mistake, lives with them in the Hotel Lincoln across from the theatre. For the performances she insists on buying...
Lieutenant Bixby has constructed miniature houses, churches, barns, silos, and backhouses to a scale of one-100th regular size. Placed at a distance of 50 to 90 yards from the pieces, these targets will look the same as their actual counter-parts at ten thousand yards' distance...
...over to FDIC when the directors failed to agree on plans for a reorganization. Ninety-nine per cent of the depositors will be paid in full. Under the Temporary Insurance Plan (guaranteeing accounts of $2,500 or less), $125.000 of the bank's deposits are covered?less than 4 100th of 1% of the FDIC's present capital...
...royalties to Babe Ruth because it was named ostensibly for the late President Cleveland's daughter "Baby Ruth,'' who died of diphtheria in 1904 at the age of 12. Curtiss launched 100 new bars, of which 87 were quick failures, twelve nine-day wonders, and the 100th Baby Ruth. Candy bars named No Kiddin', Truluv, Hoky Poky, Lobster Patty, Chicken Dinner and Fat Emma have nickered fitfully. A few old reliables hold their places on the counters beside the cash registers: Nestle's almond & milk chocolate bars, Sweets Co. of America's Tootsie Roll...
...Baltimore newshawk and Most Rev. Michael Joseph Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore. Next day Archbishop Curley was to pontificate at a solemn military field mass in Baltimore Stadium, in commemoration of triple anniversaries-the 300th of the founding of Maryland and the first Catholic mass on Maryland soil, the 100th of the birth of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, the 20th of Archbishop Curley's consecration as bishop. With good weather, 100,000 pious folk might be present to fill the stadium as it never had been filled before, and to participate in the largest U. S. mass since...