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...DEAD ON LIME-KILN...
...Lime Rock, Conn., Winslow Wilson painted two moppets called The Mora Children, heard his picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
Early that morning the battered, blackened barge Ready had been towed by the tug Powerful from St. George, Bermuda, to a point eight miles off lovely Nonsuch Island. Bracketed on the inside wall of the bathysphere were oxygen tanks. Trays of soda lime (to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide) and calcium chloride (to absorb moisture) were stowed in. Dr. Beebe and Mr. Barton wedged themselves in, smiling and waving. They were confident their bathysphere would stand up under the great pressure a half-mile down (1,300 lb. per sq. in.) because a few days before it had been lowered empty...
...client may order according to his dog's tastes or his veterinarian's advice. Entrees include beef hearts (16? per lb.), beef liver (20? ), beef kidneys (19? ), beef head meat (12? ), lamb (16? ), lamb hearts (16? ), tripe (11? ) and tongue (21? ). Beverages are cod liver oil, haliveroil, lime water, goats' milk, beef broth...
Fortnight ago the Federal Trade Commission told the Press that for the first lime it had invoked the Securities Act against a company which had already sold a bond issue. The company: Laclede Gas Light Co. The cause: failure to report in its bond registration that rate suits were pending against the company (TIME, Jan. 15). Last week the Federal Trade Commission backtracked when it discovered that it had made a mistake, that the bonds in question had not been sold. Laclede Gas, like many another company, was allowed to withdraw a bond registration that did not suit the Commission...