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For the past month saucer-eyed Annie has almost entirely disappeared from Cartoonist Harold Gray's strip and the adults associated with her have engaged in a riot of skulduggery. Two villains, Claude Claptrap, a popular demagog, and J. Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's...
On behalf of the Senate's lobby investigation, Senator Hugo La Fayette Black last week diligently plied a spade in his dirt pile, "big enough to keep 20 committees busy." Almost equally diligent was Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, bent on a similar investigation. Some...
According to diligent newshawks, Mrs. Dunkel, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, Mandeville Zenge and Mr. and Mrs. Waldman all had one thing in common. After they made their respective headlines, they all declared they had enjoyed "the best night's sleep in years."
Last week, however, a sturdy, efficient and economical picking machine seemed at hand. The South was abuzz with conjecture. The machine had been nursed through long years of experiment by its inventors, John D. Rust and his brother Mack. On one side of their harvester is a tunnel-like opening...
Son Walter had been a diligent pupil from childhood. He was a capable pianist. He had played second violin in his father's orchestra. At 18 a Newark (N. J.) choral society engaged him as conductor. When his father died suddenly, young Walter, a little dazed, assumed all his...