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...Chester Novak, an arthritis-ridden Milwaukee invalid, traded a 3-? bottle of liniment for a bar of soap, the soap for a pound of butter and the butter for a case of pop. By judicious barter he finally parlayed the pop into $65 worth of miscellaneous goods, hoped finally to end up with a television...
Connoisseur. In Nice, France, a judge couldn't quite stick Dr. Caillet's will, declared it invalid, since it set up an annual prize for the local citizen who had the straightest nose, smallest wrists, and largest hands-provided his hair was red and his eyebrows black...
...into German hands. In 1942 the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized 77% (some 535,000) of its outstanding shares as enemy property. This time the stock will be sold, at competitive bidding, to U.S. citizens only. Any shares that get into the hands of aliens will automatically become invalid...
...Moose. In North Attleboro, he lives in a frame house on Grove Street with his invalid mother, a widowed sister and his brother Charles. His favorite recreation: walking. His only hobby: collecting miniature elephants...
Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...