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Died. Flaude Cleveland, 67, spinster bank president (Addison State Bank); in Addison, Mich. Daughter of a saloonkeeper, before she was seven she had a paper route. She rose to shoeshine girl in a barbershop, became a bank janitor in 1907, after 22 years wound up as bank president...
...that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position to send the patient to a physician before unsuspected trouble becomes more dangerous...
What will U.S. art be like, say ten years hence? Last week the small but influential Addison Gallery at Andover, Mass, was supplying an answer of a sort...
Swift held politicians in scorn, but served two of them-the Tory Lords Bolingbroke and Oxford-so as to sway a kingdom. He despaired of mankind, but his friendships with Addison, Arbuthnot, Pope and Gay were among the happiest of the age. Women disgusted him, but he loved one woman all his life. Exiled from England to the deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he conquered, with Gulliver (1726), the world he wished to shame. And though he detested Ireland, he wrote so fiercely in her defense (in The Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal...
Whose Advice? When Labor Lord Addison offered a weak compromise, Lord Salisbury rejected it in anger: "Unworthy of consideration . . . the government has tried to blackmail this House." They voted - 177-to-81 against the bill...