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...Reptile Red DeHorn Jersey Bull. In Danbury, Conn., arrested for the same reason was a man who was trying to hide a watermelon under his shirt but having some difficulty, because he was already loaded with a jar of cheese spread, several ears of corn, two jars of skin lotion, some parts for an automobile brake, a can of shoe polish, a dill pickle, and a rearview mirror...
Scapegoats. In Rome, an announcer broadcast that the British had taken the Mediterranean isle of Linosa after fiercely defending goats fell asleep, had their throats cut by a limey midshipman who sneaked into their midst coated with a lotion that made him smell goaty...
...personally austere, publicity-shy, reticent. He talks to the press only off the record and says to correspondents: "Remember, if you print that, out you go." Even his wife could not pry out of him his destination when he left for Africa. She found some mosquito-repellent lotion in his luggage, said: "I think I know where you're going." He said: "Look some more." She did, and found anti-frostbite lotion...
...German anti-lice lotion may free the Nazi Army of the specter which haunted it last winter in Eastern Europe -typhus fever. The formula is still a German secret which the Russians would like to share. But the A.M.A. Journal last fortnight gave one possible clue to its ingredients. A Professor Morell put lice on horses, observed that they fell off dead almost at once. The lice were killed, he discovered, by the horses' sweat...
...Splendide, setting of so many of his earlier stories, with its passionate waiters and soft carpets. But the same aroma follows him on this present tour of France, the Caribbean and South America. On the Normandie he meets the glamor girl who appeared to have "rubbed herself with a lotion every morning, and then pasted her clothes on her body"; the old Countess "with a face made of Roquefort" and an "asthmatic and dribbly" Pekingese with eyes "completely outside of his head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front...