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...Chicago father, home early one afternoon last autumn, opened the door of his son's bedroom and found himself staring at a terrifying tableau. His son, a 15-year-old vocational-school student, was sitting there, one forearm bared, a hypodermic syringe in his hand. Another boy was holding a teaspoon over the flame of a cigarette lighter. Both the syringe and the teaspoon contained heroin...
celebrates - in her own way - her own birthday. Her 2000th! From the cutting of her huge cake, with its hundred score of candles, 'til the last skyrocket blazes to heaven in late autumn, there's never been such a party. Why not plan to come in the "thrift season" (the spring or fall) ? There's something doing all the time! Paris is scintillating-for it's a very special time . . . Read the varied program of events here -and plan to come. Write us now for booklets...
...laconic British Foreign Correspondent Crane, there were more important things to talk about than love on that autumn day in 1947. Civil war raged through India's Kashmir, and swept over the cream-colored British Catholic mission where he had arrived a few days before, looking for a story. Bloodthirsty Pathan tribesmen had swarmed down from the north, seized the mission and taken their revenge by slaughtering some of the Hindu refugees hiding there...
Cheered by talk of an early end to the Korean war and fading chances for the excess profits tax in the lame-duck session of Congress (see above), the Dow-Jones industrials rose to 235.47 (up 4.8 points in a week), the highest since the autumn of 1930. The rails rose to 71.06, highest since 1931. The New York Herald Tribune's closely watched average of 100 stocks finally broke through its 1946 bull market high of 137.45, and reached 137.63, also the highest since...
Incompetence, however, is the word which best describes all phases of the play and umpiring, but on this warm and sunny autumn afternoon it really didn't seem to make much difference. The highlights of the day were provided by the sidelights of the game...