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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Evalyn Washington McLean Reynolds, 20, daughter of Hostess Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean; and Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 58: a daughter, 6 Ib. 8 oz. (her first child, his fourth); in Washington...
...greater firmness the pins are driven in obliquely, as a carpenter drives a nail. Each set of pins is then locked into a pin-bar, and the two bars are bolted to a long extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh and bone, 2) the pin-bars, which are plastic so they will not set up the tissue-irritating galvanic currents induced when different metals touch...
...Decay of teeth, says Hill, is a product of civilization. It increases with a people's standard of living and is almost unknown among the few isolated and primitive races on the fringes of civilization. At the end of the Civil War the average American ate only 31 Ib. of sugar yearly. By World War I consumption had risen to 85 Ib. Last year it was 114 Ib. The average American, says Hill, today has two more dental cavities than he had only twelve years...
...than heard on the floor of the Senate. Since he took the late silver Senator Key Pittman's place two years ago, he has made the headlines on only one subject: Nevada's huge Government-financed magnesium plant, world's largest (rated capacity: 112,000,000 Ib. a year, 3½-times U.S. output last year), which went into production last month...
...spear. An exception among opera singers (most of whom have to have their parts drilled into them by coaches and conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever to prance the operatic proscenium. She married and divorced three husbands. The last of them (a California chauffeur named Floyd Glotzbach) she once fondly described as "100 per cent a man." Margaret Matzenauer sternly disapproves of the career of her daughter, Adrienne Matzenauer, who sings blues and torch...