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...delicate work of suturing, or sewing up, begins. . . . The surgeon weaves the suture neatly around the base of the [sterilized] appendix stump so that it may be drawn closed in much the same manner you would close a tobacco sack. Next he will fold in the end of the appendix with a cross-stitch on top of it so there will be nothing left to cause trouble, such as adhesions...
Efficiency Expert Guy T. Viskniskki swept down on Gary Bok's Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger office last November like a wolf on the fold. Shortly thereafter towels from one of three racks disappeared from a Ledger washroom, but Expert Viskniskki denied it was any of his doing (TIME, Jan. 15). Last week unhappy Ledger newsmen to the tune of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, were singing under their breath...
...Dies Committee continues its investigation then would the Silvershirts fold up?" demanded Representative Thomas of New Jersey...
...followers to their fate. Suddenly the Item came out with an editorial platform calling for punishment of "all who have stolen from State and Federal Governments," rigid State economy, honest elections. Next day, in an editorial headed At Long Last, the States sarcastically welcomed the Item "to the fold of those who are battling to save Louisiana from political racketeers, political thieves and corruptionists...
...under the patronage of Marshal Joffre's widow which collects money to buy ambulances, last week bought 40; the Duchesse de Caylus, whose Oeuvre des Détresses Cachée tactfully tries to aid needy and unemployed French women as unobtrusively as possible, pays them to knit, fold dressings-work which almost every other French woman is already doing gratis...