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...Name Dropper. In Gary, Ind., Peter Mandich, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lake County sheriff, complained to the election board that his opponent. Peter Mandich, was capitalizing on his name...
...Name-Dropper. In Milwaukee, Marquette University Law School Senior Michael Peter Murray Jr., 27, filed a petition to change his middle name to Patrick because "an Irishman named Patrick enjoys certain social and business advantages...
...Name-Dropper. In Milwaukee, forced by the election commission to run for alderman under his full name. Roderick Peter Lanser started proceedings to have his name legally changed to Rod, explained in circuit court that Roderick sounded too fancy, wealthy and effeminate for the voters in his ward...
...KHRUSHCHEV is a notorious dropper of bricks. But no mere slip of his fidgety tongue can explain away his fantastic charge that the British, the French and the Americans had "started the second world war, sent troops against our country, and these troops were the troops of Hitlerite Germany...
Inventor Jay H. Robbins '56 took out U.S. patent number 2,722,216 last week for a safe and accurate device for self-administering eye drops which prevents spilling. The new eye-dropper is fitted with a bridge that straddles the nose, steadying the glass tube and enabling the user to squeeze the medicine into any part of the eye. Robbins pointed out that the "successful independent inventor is rapidly disappearing from the American scene." Large industry corners most of the patents, with the result that less than one percent of unassigned patients ever reach the public. He hopes, however...