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...Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. did not try to conceal their disappointment as they repacked ten small glass slides in a wooden box one day last week. The slides had been hurried over from France by diplomatic courier in the belief that they contained a long-sought medical curio-some tissue sections removed from the kidneys of U.S. Naval Hero John Paul Jones. Undaunted, the pathologists said they had not yet begun to fight, this week resumed the search...
Coated Pill. In Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Charles Van Wie attached flowerpots and clinging vines to the parking meters in front of his curio store, explained that he wanted to make his customers happier as they put their nickels...
...huge, bay-windowed Cairo office, President-Premier Mohammed Naguib last week puffed his pipe and busied himself with an agreeable task. He set out various photos of himself, cocked his head at them, then, with the help of curio dealers, selected appropriate silver frames. He was going to Khartoum in a few days as Egypt's delegate to the first session of the Sudan Parliament; the pictures would be gifts for his hosts. At 53, the native son was returning to his birthplace...
...despite a handsome income from his oil wells, he found his foundation in debt this year to the tune of $2,200,000 for items acquired but not yet paid for. One day last month Gilcrease went to Claremore to visit the Will Rogers Memorial, dropped into a curio shop run by Claremore's Mayor Jim Hammett. Gilcrease told Hammett his tale of financial woe. Hammett saw a chance to get the Gilcrease collection for Claremore, helped get together a group of influential Oklahomans, headed by Governor Johnston Murray, in a nonprofit corporation to take over the collection...
Charles Kohen, proprietor of an art and curio shop in Washington, shooed off ordinary customers one day last week. "The place is full of Secret Service men," he explained to one chance telephone caller, the New York Times's Reporter Paul Kennedy. "I've got a very important visitor coming." Thirty minutes later, accompanied by more Secret Service men, the important visitor slipped in the door: the President of the U.S. was hunting a nice picture to give his wife for their home back in Independence...