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...called "Venus's Pre-natal Château Beneath the Water"-is the real crowd-catcher. A long glass tank is filled with such subaqueous décor as a fireplace, typewriters with funguslike rubber keys, rubber telephones, a man made of rubber ping-pong bats, a mummified cow, a supine rubber woman painted to resemble the keyboard of a piano. Whatever this may mean as art, the exhibitors did not dilly-Dali over it. Into the tank they plunged living girls, nude to the waist and wearing little Gay Nineties girdles and fishnet stockings. Swimming, grimacing, doing...
...Chicago last week the National Inventors Congress displayed a doughnut equipped with a handle for tidy dunking; an air-conditioned pie pan; a combination vanity case, walking stick, beach cape and umbrella. This is the organization which turned up in former years with a cow-tail restrainer (to prevent milkers from being switched); a funnel to facilitate the insertion of keys in keyholes; a mirror-maze mousetrap, hundreds of similar marvels...
...Seven! Holy cow !! Okay, though guy, I'll take...
Luren Dudley Dickinson, the Governor of Michigan, balanced himself on a milk stool on the lawn of his capitol at Lansing one afternoon last week, milking Miss Ormsby, a Holstein cow. The occasion: National Milk Week. Suddenly His Excellency shifted his seat, toppled off his perch. Unless Luren Dickinson, aged 80, abandoned one of his cardinal tenets as he sprawled on the grass, he prayed...
...Ohio State, 1,000 alumni this week gathered for a similar series of lectures on the general theme: What Does the Future Hold? Some subjects: Propaganda Analysis (by Alumnus Clyde R. Miller, 11), Restoration Saints and Modern Sinners, Tomorrow's Newspaper, Movies of a Cow's Stomach...