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...Real Solid Gold." The whole five-day interlude was a quiet, relaxing time, devoted to family and old friends. Harry Truman walked across the icy street from the Truman home, coatless, but carrying a cane, to take a present to his spinster cousin, Miss Ethel Noland, drove out to make a call on Miss Ethel's 70-year-old sister, Miss Nellie, who is recovering from an operation at Independence Sanitarium. He sent his excuses to a big meeting of the Truman Democratic Club, held especially in his honor. But as always, on his vacation visits, he received...
...When the powder is applied heavily, it kills all plant life, keeps soil sterile for more than a year, is thus useful for clearing railroad tracks, outside storage areas, etc. Used in smaller amounts, du Font's new product attacks weeds only, permits such crops as sugar cane, cotton, corn, asparagus or carrots to flourish...
...confused with the milk-curdling Scottish pipes. The medieval one-cane Italian pipe had not so shrill a timbre...
Died. Edwin Leland James, 61, for 19 years managing editor of the New York Times; of a heart disease; in Manhattan. Jaunty, cane-swinging, Virginia-born "Jimmy" James first cubbed for the Baltimore Sun, became a regular Times byliner with his World War I front-line dispatches, stayed in Europe for the Times until called home in 1930, built up the Times's crack foreign staff. One of his best-known leads was on the 1918 Armistice: "In a twinkling, four years of killing and massacre stopped as if God had swept His omnipotent finger across the scene...
Brandishing his cane, McKellar thundered, "I'm going to beat the tar out of you." Dunlap, 48, retorted, "If you were 40 years younger, I'd knock your teeth down your throat," and walked out of McKellar's office unbeaten, unharmed...