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...Cook, J. P. McEvoy. But most of the jingles which Odell rapidly spread across the U.S. came in as the result of Burma-Vita's offer to pay $100 for every one used. Some of the contributions Burma-Vita would like to use but doesn't lest they offend public taste. One of the more printable rejects...
...dailies. A decade later it was out in front to stay (it now has over 800,000 a day). McLean put it there by giving Philadelphians what they seemed to want: all the news (no matter how trivial), sold in good time and told in good taste. Lest his Bulletin track mud into the neat row houses where it was a daily guest, he forbade it to muckrake. When the syndicated comic-strippers took to stripping their girls, he had his art room paint their clothes right back...
...gold country was presented to the Queen, she gasped to see four of the bees crawling placidly on his head. The Queen asked anxiously if he had been stung. He hadn't. But as they sat down, King George suggested gently that the Mayor leave off his hat, lest the bees be unnecessarily disturbed...
...Lest the new stations rouse up sensitive Russia, Minister Howe held out an offer of help. He did not know how many weather stations Russia has in its own Arctic regions (she had 137 in 1940). But he hoped that some day Canada would be able to interchange the new Arctic weather information with the U.S.S.R. in the same way the two countries now exchange general weather reports...
Last week, as the state Supreme Court deliberated, the Journal diplomatically kept mum lest it be accused of trying to influence the Court. But the Journal's two G-men, Goodwin and Gregory, were still digging. They had received tips of vote-fixing in Cherokee County (55 votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated...