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...major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal court for misdemeanor in office and taking bribes, he informed a badgering prosecutor: "All I have now is a few dollars in cash...
...speech. He never uses a plain word when there is a fancy one handy. A knife he calls a dirk. Besides giving advice on the air and by mail, the Voice spends about $45,000 a year to provide operations for babies born with harelip or cleft palate, spectacles for myopic children, etc. He also sends boys & girls through college without revealing to them the source of their scholarships, helps unmarried mothers through childbirth...
Last Sunday evening, Pianist Hofmann, now 61, his grey hair encircling a bald spot, his gentle face still distinguished by the cleft chin of his youth, walked upon the Metropolitan stage and 4,000 applauding people rose to their feet. It was 50 years, less a day, since he had made his debut before the U. S. public. For this Golden Jubilee concert the 4,000 had bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia...
...this point Captain Sagel sent yet another message saying that so far as he could see the "abandoned mine tunnel" in which the gold was supposed to have been discovered was "nothing but a cleft in the river bed" and quite empty...
People with cleft palates clench their nostrils and arch their tongues in effort to make their enunciation intelligible. Dr. Fitz-Gibbon breaks them of those habits by putting thimbles in their nostrils, guide wires in their mouths. Girls with cleft palates are harder to treat than boys, said he, "because girls are ordinarily protected from the rude mockery of other children. Consequently they are apt to take pride in their funny way of talking...