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Apprehensive at the number of classes he has slept through, he has enlisted the help of his roommates. But to no avail. Cold water wets him, but does not wake him unless in sufficient quantities to float him. It only irritates him. Other means, such as giving him a hot-foot are similarly unavailing. Experimentation has shown that his ears simply do not function while he is asleep. But it also shows that, oddly enough, his eyes can be awakened while his ears slumber...
...pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie Donahue was supposed to ride a float and offer flowers to Ferdinand the Bull, but at the last moment his mother wouldn...
...Sink-&-Float. If a handful of bird shot mixed with sawdust is thrown into a pail of water, the shot will sink, the sawdust float. Reason: the specific gravity of water is greater than wood's, less than lead's. The flotation method of separating ores from waste, using liquids of higher specific gravity than water, has been used for nearly a century. For over three decades E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. has been trying to devise an economical flotation method for separating impurities such as shale and slate from low-grade anthracite coal. For "parting...
...past nine years he has been Vice President in charge of Finance and Corporate Relations. Today, white-haired Albert County, 67, may well hold more directorships (121) than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond issues. Last week, after 48 years with the Pennsylvania, he gave up railroading, planned henceforth to chop trees and roam the woods near his Christmas Cove, Me. home...
Trumpets tore the night air. Into New Orleans' City Park Stadium, where 65,000 Roman Catholics knelt, moved a ''Eucharistic chariot"-a large float, draped in burgundy and gold fabrics, bearing the kneeling figure of George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and for this occasion a papal legate in a gold mitre and cloth of gold cope. Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics...