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Included in the long list are Ann Radcliffe dresses at proletariate prices, designed for children after the costume of a lady Ann Radcliffe portrait; kerchiefs stenciled with the college shield; hand-knitted argyle socks; baby booties; painted trays; Radcliffe table linen; chocolates; and game-of-chance equipment...
...James A. Linen...
...Hartford, Conn., owners of 80 antique automobiles donned linen dusters, set out on a 500-mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
...charge for a bed is a dollar a night and with it come linen, blankets, bed lamp, hospital bed-tables, convenient plumbing-but no nurses: the Annex residents, it is clearly understood, are not patients. In fact, no patient has ever been assigned to the Annex, which has remained unopened ever since it was built last spring as a precautionary measure...
Later, after blackened bodies had been taken in gunny sacks to an improvised morgue, numbed relatives listened to undertakers' assistants: "Does a heart-shaped locket mean anything to anyone? Does a very plain wedding ring worn on the right hand mean anything? Here is a red linen handkerchief with the words 'Bonnie Scotland' on it, and a ruby ring." By week's end the dead were counted at 31, including the special's engine crew...