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Near Everett, Wash., state highway police sent out a hurry call for local cops to help stop a black limousine hurtling along well over the speed limit, then called them off in a hurry when they found the car belonged to Washington Governor Arthur B. Langlie...
...green horse van, Air Lift was taken back to the stables. The track veterinarian found two compound fractures of the ankle, deadened the pain with a double shot of novocaine. Grooms sponged the colt off and gave him some hay to munch. New York Sun Sportwriter W. (for Wilford) C. Heinz, who turned in the best story of anybody that day, reported the dialogue that came next...
...July the Continental Casualty Co. of Chicago began promoting a novel, simple insurance policy, exclusively for polio. The two-year premium: $5 for an individual, $10 for a family, with benefits up to $5,000 per case. Last week, Continental found that it had an underwriter's bestseller. It had taken in almost $1,000,000 (90% from family policies) and a polio-conscious public was expected to run the total to $3,000,000 by year...
This week found radio wrestling rather self-consciously with its soul. The tempter was that familiar old devil, John Barleycorn, represented by Schenley Industries, Inc. Schenley had quietly asked if the networks would now be willing to sell time on the air for whisky advertisements...
Digging out an eleven-year-old copy of the Saturday Review of Literature, the syndicate found that Canby had indeed lauded the "homely genius" of Peg's style, had even called him "that most hard-hitting and expressive of contemporary American journalists," and had gone on to quote two paragraphs from a Pegler column. The syndicate promptly slapped Canby's encomium into its ad. Just as promptly, Canby objected: "This [article] has been quoted without my permission and without the permission of the Saturday Review, where it is copyrighted...