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...House heard but did not heed: two days and hundreds of speeches later, the House passed the Lend-Lease Bill, 260-to-165. The vote by parties-For, 236 Democrats, 24 Republicans; Against, 135 Republicans, 25 Democrats, 3 Progressives, 1 Farmer-Laborite, 1 American Laborite...
...Columbus, Ohio. Circus Man Fisk's funeral came off precisely as he had requested. Summoned from an old folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining, The Man on the Flying Trapeze. A strolling "prompter" was there to remind those who might weep. None did. Old Dode Fisk...
...campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...give more shopping days before Christmas, thus help retailers, President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day from this week to last. But because many a State and individual paid no heed, he unintentionally helped the turkey business too. Reason: restaurants, hotels, clubs must supply two turkey dinners instead of one. U. S. turkey production hit an all-time record: 33,138,000 birds this year, up from 1939's 32,732,000, far above 1929's 16,794,000. For turkey farmers this means $80,000,000 this year, against $72,549,000 in 1939, and only...
...while Seton's woodlore was never taken overseriously as science, science is moving his way. Meanwhile, bird feeders and fireside gun polishers can en joy Seton's accounts of moose hunts under golden moons, blue jays protecting their young by imitating hawk screams. And insomniacs may heed his observation, "a sheep's ears must point forward as he leaps...