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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wage Dispute. In Noblesville, Ind., Mrs. W. L. Rigdon sued for a divorce, claimed that her husband asked her to pay him $1.50 an hour for "working around the house...
...Baltimore, Henry L Mencken, whose beery Christmas Story had been yanked off sale in Canada, was feeling better. A Canadian cinema producer had the rights to Mencken's A Neglected Anniversary (deadpan history of the bathtub, written some 30 years ago), and Mencken had a gratifying contract: in exchange for rights to the old hoax, the old hoaxer (who is a connoisseur of brews) was guaranteed two cases of Canadian ale a month for the rest of his life. Further, he did not have to return "the bottles and containers or other cartons in which such ale is shipped...
Caniff's dear, dead A.P. days will never be beyond recall. In the artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
...rescue of these campanies has come L. Don Leet, associate professor of Geology and director of the University seismograph station. Leet has spent 15 years in research on the intensity of vibrations and the damage that they...
...Grete L. Bibring, associate in Psychiatry; Maxwell Bovarnick '30, assistant professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; Seymour J. Gray, assistant professor of Medicine; Marian C. Putnam, lecturer on Psychiatry; DeWitt Stettin, Jr. '30, assistant professor of Medicine...