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Readers who called up the World-Telegram, agog to know how old the banker's grandfather was and how his mumps were getting along, got a red-faced explanation. The Telly had meant to say grandson...
...summer frocks and flannels. Red bunting, dripping in the rain, hung from the steel railings, and gramophone records blared London Pride. In a clean white apron and battered hat, wizened old Polly Beecham, who has sold her flowers at the foot of the statue for 50 years, was agog with excitement. "I loike 'im," she exclaimed as the returning hero was hoisted into place. "'E's my companion, see?" A dewy-eyed lass in the crowd confessed her devotion just as shamelessly. "I cyme all the w'y from Ilford 'cause I'd never...
Last week Zurich was agog over the latest miracle man. Nightly at the Corso, the city's largest music hall, a 35-year-old Dutchman named Mirin Dajo stood stoically while an assistant seemed to push swords and spears through his chest. "I am no artist," Dajo said, "but a prophet. If you believe in God, your will can dominate your body. People wouldn't believe me if I started to talk. But after seeing my invulnerability they will." The act was a great success. So many people fainted that waiters demanded payment of checks before each performance...
...usual when he speaks, in or out of office, Winston Churchill set the world agog, this time with: 1) an assault on Russia; 2) a plea for combining the military strength of the U.S. and Britain in a "fraternal association." The plea, not new, was nevertheless startling at this juncture of world affairs...
Forthright Professor Artturi Virtanen, Finland's Nobel Prizewinner (1945) in chemistry, broke the long silence of his country's intelligentsia. In Stockholm for scientific talks, he set all Scandinavia agog by bluntly telling a Communist newsman...