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...jigger of cocktail rum (on which President Vincent is trying to get a 50% reduction of U. S. duty), a half teaspoonful of Angostura bitters and chopped ice to be spun rapidly with a limewood swizzle stick until the ice has melted and (hen drunk before the ''bead" on the liquor sub-sides...
...Hen Hawk. On the grounds of an insane asylum at Ransom. Pa. the head farmer noticed his chickens scurry suddenly for cover. A hen hawk, he thought, must be about. Overhead he saw what looked like a huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society...
...Hen Medic...
...comparison is possible it looks as if the Mitchellmen's .273 batting average, compared with Pennsylvania's .220, will give them the jump at the plate, while the Quakers' crack fielding is going to make scratch hits and bases on errors as scarce as the well known hen's teeth on a duck farm...
...childbed. As her labor pains mounted physicians saw that, because her pelvic bones were still immature, a normal delivery would be difficult, if not dangerous. They decided on a caesarean section. But Juanita's grandmother Annie Dick, who remembers when squaws had babies with less fuss than a hen laying an egg, stood out against it. All night long the physicians argued with her, pointing out that Indian girls of Juanita's generation no longer live the hardworking, outdoor lives of their grandmothers which made for small babies, easy deliveries. Just after dawn Grandmother Annie gave...