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...Just Asked Me to Dance." Brown-eyed Constance Clement, a onetime cake counter clerk, met her husband Luis, a chief petty officer, at the Trocadero dance hall in Sydney a year and a half ago. "He just asked me to dance and I kept dancing with him all night," she explained. Her destination: Humboldt, Neb. where her father-in-law is a contractor. She was much relieved about what her three sisters-in-law would be like after she met a "lovely" Nebraska girl who was working at the Western Union desk of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel...
Theoretically, although the odds are trillions of trillions to one, such spontaneous activity is possible. The notion was first suggested by the late great Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, and physicists speak of it as "Maxwell's Demon." It is based on a fundamental law of thermodynamics known as "the principle of increasing entropy" (i.e., disorder...
...banned the book, in fact "had no right to do so." He had merely dropped in at Boston's oldest booksellers, the Old Corner Bookstore (whose head, Richard F. Fuller, is also President of the Boston Board of Retail Book Merchants), and drawn an interested clerk's attention to Strange Fruit's overripe passages. Soon all Boston booksellers received a notice from the Board of Retail Book Merchants asking them to withdraw the book...
First to enter was Mrs. Cazalet Keir. In trembling, embarrassed voice, before the clerk's table, she read: "The Ayes are 117, the Noes...
They put him back on the perch. Once more, at the clerk's table, the tally was read: Confidence in the Government, 425. No confidence...