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Died. Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton, 76, pathfinder in military aviation, who with Billy Mitchell in the 1920s was in the thick of the fight to prove that aircraft could make junk out of Navy warships, in 1942 organized the India-based bomber force that struck the first offensive blows in the Far East (against Japanese forces in the Burma area), later commanded the First Allied Airborne Army in its 1944 glider-and-parachute invasion of The Netherlands; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...raise a bit of extra revenue, New York State sells its list of motor-vehicle owners, complete with addresses, to the highest bidder. New York vehicle owners are thereupon inundated with predictable bales of junk mail, sales-pitch telephone calls, and even personal visits by hawkers of various products. The situation became so intolerable to Old Leftist Author and 1967 Valiant Owner Corliss Lament that he sued to prevent the state from selling his name. In the warming winds of judicial concern over invasion of privacy, Lament thought his chances good...
...long train ride from Chestnut Hill to his office in Philadelphia, Scott, then a lawyer, started teaching himself Japanese grammar. As often happens with students of that subtle tongue, Scott found that a taste for Japanese art quickly followed. "Mrs. Scott was slightly appalled at first at all the junk I was bringing home," he recalls, "but she came to like...
Margaret Kreig quotes a racketeer who was persuading a petty crook to move over to fake drugs from the numbers game, which had earned him many convictions: "There are no problems. It's not like junk [narcotics]. FDA has a helluva time making any kinda case. And when they get you-if they get you-it's only a misdemeanor for misbranding, or some such. So you hafta pay a couple hundred dollars' fine. You can make it back in a couple of hours...
Lord's presence even when he missed the ball gave senior southpaw Jim McKinley a Candlish a comfortable cushion for most of the game. McCandlish surrendered seven hits, walked seven and struck out eight, befuddling Holy Cross with his assortment of junk...