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...onetime Siamese Minister at London. Much publicized in 1939 was the elaborate exorcism of devils from his five-week-old son, in rural England. A champagne party followed long wordless rites that included an anointing, attaching of cords to the baby's body, and removal of a lock of hair, which was wrapped in a lotus leaf and set adrift on the River Bourne...
These two assets started to pay off in 1937, when the Canadian Government hand-picked Johnson to organize and operate Trans-Canada Air Lines. He did a real job: by 1939 Trans-Canada's Lock-heeds whizzed all over the Dominion, kept a fabulous 98.1% of all schedules. Then came the call P.G. had waited five years to hear-the U.S. wanted him back. The company: Boeing. The situation: terrible. Waterlogged with the first gush of World War II aircraft orders. Boeing had a rheumatic production line, a small scatter-trained working force, a two-year deficit...
...Lock. In Paris, Mo., Mrs. R. O. Bornhouser, whose husband had tried to fix the lock on their car's trunk, drove into a gas station and had the attendant pry it open, releasing Mr. Bornhouser...
Death & Poverty. But the fact was that the U.S. was engaged in no phony war. At that moment out on the Pacific the Jap and U.S. Fleets were smashing at each other in a death lock; squadrons of the finest young American men were taking off carrier decks and off land bases, many never to come back...
Marias. In Nashville, Tenn., Police Chief John Griffin decided to put a lock on the patrol-wagon door after a prisoner ran away. In Kearny, N.J., four men who lived on a garbage dump were convicted of vagrancy. After looking them over, police refused to let them enter their shining patrol wagon, carried them to jail in a garbage truck...