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Nobody in Denver ever saw a salesman who could match bluff Fred Ward, 43, a 200-lb. slicker who "could talk a mole out of his hole." He blew into town in 1939, soon landed a job selling Dodges. In two years, he was selling more Dodges than anybody else in the region, set up his own business, Fred Ward Inc., and started selling Hudsons. Soon he was distributor for Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Nebraska...
When General Mark Clark announced that he was no longer in the field for an ambassadorship to the Vatican, much of the wind that followed Truman's original statement on the question of representation at the Holy See blew itself out. Although the issue is still sufficient to produce a few decibals from Texas, it has faded from the halls of Congress, from the newspapers, and even from many Protestant pulpits. Now that the furor has subsided, it is possible to detect a few sane arguments here and there...
This explosion-to-prevent-an-explosion is the unexpected byproduct of research conducted by a pair of English chemists, W. G. Glendinning and A. M. MacLennan. Four years ago, the two scientists set out to compare the "explodability" of kerosene and gasoline vapors. When they first blew up test mixtures of kerosene mist, they discovered that the intricate process of combustion was much slower than they had expected. It took all of one-hundredth of a second for the expanding pressure of the explosion to rise one pound per square inch. That left "bags of time," they decided, to quench...
...Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy Box Murder Case.-The police began to consult him so often in baffling mysteries that his name became a regular headline...
...Crimson sent four skaters out again. The referees tried unsuccessfully to remove one man, then inexplicably faced the disk anyhow. The play surged for a full five seconds before the officials saw their error; but by then Weiland was changing his players "on the go." So when the whistle blew, the Crimson had not four, but nine men on ice. Another extra-man penalty finally solved the ludicrous episode