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...acid, one-man minority report favoring commercial sponsorship, Conservative M. P. Selwyn Lloyd said: "If people are to be trusted with the franchise, surely they should be able to decide for themselves whether they want to be educated or entertained in the evening...
After a sliver of glass hit her right eye during the goblet-smashing scene in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera House, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens carried on to the end of the act. During intermission she had the splinter removed. Then, relying on a boric-acid eye bath, she turned down an unglamorous bandage, sang through the last...
...exact junction of the transparent cornea and the white sclera. With a snip of his scissors, he cut out a tiny section of the iris. Then, with a deft motion, he flipped out the cataract-clouded lens. One of the assistants slapped a wad soaked with boric acid on the eye, tied a bandage in place, and the operation was over. Average time: 40 seconds...
Died. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, 72, first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate;* in Falls Church, Va. Widow of eloquent, acid-tongued Senator (1921-31) Thaddeus Horatius Caraway of Arkansas, she was appointed to his seat by Governor Harvey Parnell, got elected to full terms in '32 and '38. She sat quietly in the Senate for 13 years, always dressed in black, made about one speech a year, voted the straight New Deal line...
Firemen and student bunkers attempted to extinguish the flames with water, whereupon a quart of hydrochloric said, a half pound of metalic sodium, two and a half pounds of lithium bromide, and five gallons of faming sulfuric acid exploded...