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Walter ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, the West's most publicized "desert rat," was up & around again at 70-odd after a routine encounter with a rattlesnake. Struck on the thumb, Scotty doctored himself: he yanked the snake off, slashed the wound, applied serum from his handy kit, trotted home to live...
...Marino, Calif., in sight of the Sierra Madres, Huntington built two immense homes for his treasures. There, in a hall lined with million-dollar Boucher tapestries, he held many a midnight session with Rosenbach and Sir Joseph Duveen, planning collecting coups. Then, in 1919, Huntington deeded the whole kit & caboodle to the public. "The ownership of a fine library," he observed, "is the swiftest and surest way to immortality...
...revolution was caused by home permanent wave kits (TIME, Aug. 18). In less than three years, home "cold" waves, which women give themselves for $2 or less, had become a vastly profitable industry. The Rexall Drug chain had its own kit. So did Montgomery Ward & Co. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. was about to bring one out. Wailed a Boston beauty-shop owner to a Watt Street Journal reporter: "Don't talk to me about those things; I've lost half my customers already and unless we do something I'll lose the rest...
...Alamosa, Colo., Kit Carson III, grandson of the Indian fighter, announced that he was planning to quit his job in a furniture store and open a trading post...
Smallest boat was an 8-ft. sailing pram made from a construction kit. It sold for $35 and could be built at home...