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...tender quick-frozen meat. Sugared Plaster- The desperate sugar industry with 2,105,000 long tons overproduction asked Mellon Institute to find new uses for sugar. Result: Gerald Judy Cox and John Metschl resurrected and perfected an ancient masonic formula for strengthening mortar with syrup. To every 100 Ib. of quicklime in a lime-sand mortar mix they add 6 Ib. sugar. The sugared mortar is 60% stronger than ordinary mortar. Sugar last week sold at 4½? per Ib. wholesale. The two sugar investigators also perfected commercial methods of making citric and oxalic acids from cane sugar. They have...
Born, To Frederick Ogden Nash, word-wangler (Hard Lines), and Frances Leonard Nash, onetime Baltimore Junior Leaguer; a daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. Name: Linell Chenault...
...Princeton (1917) "Turck" Cohu roomed for four years with his brother Henry Wallace ("Wally"). He was intercollegiate light-heavyweight wrestling champion. Today his weight is exactly the same-175 Ib.-and he still likes to wrestle at the New York Athletic Club. Also he plays good golf at Southampton, L. I. with his friend Publisher Wilfred John Funk. More than golf or wrestling he likes chess. He is rarely seen without a pipe between his teeth...
After almost a week of pedaling around a steeply inclined pine-board track in Madison Square Garden last week, most of the riders in Manhattan's 52nd International Six Day Bicycle Race were from 5 to 15 Ib. heavier than when they started. They had not slept much-five hours per day, mostly between 5 a. m. and noon-but they had made up for it by eating huge quantities of beef, chicken and raw celery. The basement of Madison Square Garden is never more malodorous, even when populated by show dogs or poultry, than when its catacombs...
...Hellebranths took New York last week without a struggle and added several ounces to the 16 Ib. of press clippings which their scrapbooks contain. Newspapers were eager to favor them, for the de Hellebranths are young, deep-voiced, brown-eyed, vivacious Hungarians...