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Died. William H. Luden, 90, whose modest homemade candymaking boomed into big business when, in 1900, he mixed a menthol formula into his candy and made the first menthol cough drop (he sold out 27 years later for $6,500,000); of a heart attack; in Atlantic City...
Which brings us generally up to the present season, and specifically up to the Braves opening series with the new Philadelphia "Not a cough in a carload" Phillies...
Rich Heiress Fontaine, complete with satin pajamas and psychiatrist, decides that she can't stand her new husband's cough--after an hour or so of marriage. So she spends her nuptial night in the hotel room down the hall. The room happens to be inhabited by pilot Stewart, who plods through the "you take the bedroom and I'll sleep on the couch." situation and later takes the heroine "way from it all" in his westbound plane--together with the cigar-smoking carnival monkey, the cringing embezzler, a corpse-loaded coffin, and other less interesting cargo...
This week Lederle doctors report claims of success in treating whooping cough and tularemia (rabbit fever). Dr. Duggar is still busy at the work he loves. He has some 200 new samples of soil, is looking for still another antibiotic...
...Porter's passion for high living is supplemented by a passion for tidiness, which extends to details as small as the boutonniere that is always in his lapel. His Waldorf suite is fastidiously neat. His valet has to be meticulous about keeping familiar things in familiar places: cigarettes, cough drops, bric-a-brac, Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia for Kate...