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...hospital in Allentown, Pa., where she was taken, the immediate problem was feeding the mother and her unborn child. The delivery was still six months away, and natural forces would come into play at the right time. Many paralytics and iron-lung mothers have given birth to normal babies; their condition is somewhat similar to that induced by the pain-killing caudal anesthesia...
...real labor pinch, that where there were local shortages, the voluntary methods advocated by organized labor and the N.A.M. would probably do the trick. Cleveland was launching such a campaign. Even the War Manpower Commission might be able to handle things. WMC had bared its muscle in Allentown, Pa., and had put high-paid brewery workers in munitions plants. Congress relaxed...
Helen now runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa. George was shingling the roof of their nearby farmhouse when Helen heard that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken Anything Can Happen as one of its January choices. (Selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club usually means at least $30,000 for the author.) Helen was afraid to tell him, fearing he would fall off the roof. When they told an immigrant friend that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken the book: "Don't worry," said the friend, "it's not worth...
Died. Sigourney Thayer, 47, comical, acidulous son of the late Headmaster William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School, World War I aviator, later Vultee Aircraft executive, husband of Socialites Emily Davies Vanderbilt and Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell; in an automobile accident ; in Allentown...
...year-old high-school principal from Georgia; the floor manager of the Hi-Skor bowling alley in Washington; a printer from Worcester; a lawyer; a section hand; a real-estate dealer; a professional roller skater; the 25 -year-old assistant office manager of a wholesale grocery firm in Allentown; an employe of the Arkansas Power and Light Co.; a brakeman on the New York Central; a 22 -year-old butcher from Fresno...