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Another rumor started by some pessimistic fool, was that the Rodney had been sunk. This arose because some naval officers were playing Shove Ha'penny, or some equally exciting game, somewhere or other, and one of the players was called Rodney. He was losing very heavily and when at last he gave up, one of his companions cried joyfully "Rodney is sunk." The Mess waiter or somebody somewhere in the room told his best girl - hence the rumor...
...pale the old chap went, that poor old Mr. John, When sentries stood before the British Concession! He ground what teeth he had, and stripped right to the skin; That wasn't nice for him-ha! ha! in Tientsin...
...Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted: "Republicans promised to protect our schools-ha, ha, ha...
Unquenchable Playwright Saroyan ha just written a new play, The Time of Your, Life, in six days, having meant to write it in five. Aware that many people could not make head or tail of My Heart's in the Highlands, for the new work Saroyan composed a 200-word explanatory note, to be blared through a microphone before the curtain rises...
...Karl Landsteiner, 70. Nervous, Austrian-born Dr. Landsteiner won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering that there are four main types of human blood with at least 30 subtypes. As a result of his discovery, blood transfusion ha become a safe operation. His blood tests showed that anthropoid apes and human beings are more closely related than anthropoid apes and monkeys, or monkeys and men. More recently he has been working on the chemistry of body immunity. He has thrown light on the relationship of toxins and similar substances to the antibodies they provoke...