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Eleanor Roosevelt, who slept in a tourist cabin last month when a Maine hotel barred Fala, got advance assurance this time from a hotel in Albany, N.Y.: Fala would get the big hello, with special dog biscuit. Before she arrived in the city to keynote the state Democratic Convention -her accident-blackened eyes almost healed, her new teeth installed (see cut)-she gave a vigorous answer to a tired old question. "A long while ago," said she, "I said that I would not run for any office. That holds. I'm one of the few people, apparently, who mean...
...when he was discharged from the U.S. Army last November, Davis forswore his native Columbus, Ohio, rushed back to Stoke, got a job as a biscuit salesman. He married his wartime sweetheart, 19-year-old Alma Taylor, and prepared to settle down to life in the crammed streets behind curtains only fortnightly white. He even wanted to become a subject of the King. But Britain's Home Office was not looking for immigrants. It declared that Davis was using up needed food and clothing, and ordered him to leave the realm...
...Council, who have the power to overrule him on almost any point, journeyed to the heavy pine forests north of Bangor for the Council's regular semimonthly meeting. By way of telling the world about Maine, they also had four days of deer and bear hunting, lobster eating, biscuit baking, rye drinking and poker playing...
Died. Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, 85, Kansas City dowager who set out when she was past 60 to shower Washington society with champagne and Sunshine biscuits, eventually decided she had "gone pretty far for a baker's widow" [Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.]; after long illness; in Kansas City...
...look and feel like duds. At a tea given by an R.A.F. pilot's mother-in-law, they crab interminably about their rotten treatment; and the gently experienced old lady replies, "O dear, it's a shame, isn't it? Who'll have another chocolate biscuit?" But it is in their worst failure that the men learn their best lesson. Deliberately "getting killed'' in order to loaf through a sham-battle, they already are soldiers enough to be ashamed...