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...burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter, are melting snow for drinking water. Parts...
...Chinese people will regain their freedom and their country, and looked back on the dedicated years of their organization. Member Harry O. Mitchell recalled how a few years ago he had changed his calling cards, substituting the Chinese characters Mei Chung for the syllables of his name, Mit Chell. Later he discovered that the characters had another meaning, which fittingly symbolized the whole club. In Chinese Mr. Mei Chung means Mr. America China...
...main reason for the change in plans is the current warm weather, which, according to Athletic Association Business Manager Carroll F. Get chell, makes the cost of freezing ice too high...
...Bursley. In grade school, he casually doctors his examination grades to pass with flying colors. Later, as a solicitor's clerk, he blithely adds his name to an invitation list to the fanciest ball of the year, where he boldly dances with the hostess, the Countess of Chell (Valerie Hobson). In time, he inveigles the countess into becoming patroness of a highly profitable thrift club he has set up. Through such bamboozling, Denry becomes wealthy, marries a beautiful young girl (Petula Clark) and gets to be the youngest mayor in Bursley's history. All in all, the yarn...
Pavel Tchelitchew (pronounced Chell-e-shetf) has painted some strange and wonderful things in his 52 years. Most famous among them have been his bloody, surrealistic congress of freaks called Phenomena and Hide-and-Seek-a vast, autumnal tree with embryos and sick-looking children half hidden among its leaves (TIME, Nov. 9, 1912). Last week Tchelitchew jolted Manhattan's syth Street once more with an exhibition of 50-odd transparent heads...