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...back to Crescent City's elementary school. But the morning was so foggy that D. R. Niles, the 65-year-old bus driver, kept to the road. He had just put the bus's front wheels on the railroad tracks when Death loomed out of the fog. The children were screaming and scrambling for the door when the locomotive struck...
...escaped criticism may be taken to justify a presumptuous confidence in his own sprightly style and interests. The present reviewer, however, is bound to admit a certain weariness when encountering such passages as this, "Oh ye of little faith! Surely he lived--our Sherlock--and breathed the fog and dust of Baker Street, even as now, one hopes, he breathes the purer air that blows across the Sussex Downs. And Watson too--has he not sold his latest practice, and gone to join his comrade? How often one likes to think that it is so!" And of similar extravaganza there...
...making more efficient and productive the emergency activities of the Government." He was to start by "conveying to the general public all factual information with reference to the various Governmental agencies." On a nation-wide scale his Council's representatives were to steer befuddled citizens through the fog of new Washington agencies to the particular bureau that could supply the relief needed. As a starter $10,000-per-year-man Walker hired for his headquarters assistant Eugene Sheldon Leggett, redheaded young Washington correspondent for the Detroit Free Press...
...beer in the House dining halls. Some of the Housemasters have supported beer from the first and are growing impatient of delay, others have been converted more recently: now they stand in a fairly compact body behind its introduction. But the liquor laws and age limits exist in a fog of doubt, and until that fog is dispelled, there is small hope for action...
Died. William O'Connell ("W. 0.") McGeehan, 54, famed sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune); of heart disease; at San Island Beach, Ga. He pierced the fog of ballyhoo around professional sport, turned a fishy eye on promoters, managers and their proteges, invented an elaborately sardonic slang...