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...given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Hearst's Bob Considine did little better; he drew only frozen stares with a wisecrack about 10-cc syringes. Hard-bitten Reporter James Kilgallen also stopped a Manchester dowager cold with his definition of how to pronounce his name: "Kill gallon, madam. Like booze...
...court clerk spoke in the courtroom, hush: "Madam Foreman, have you and the members of the jury agreed on a verdict...
...Copenhagen, Puffed Wheat Heir John Pierce Anderson, an abstract artist of Red Wing, Minn., gave an adequate performance in a tough role. As he arrived in Denmark with Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson and their two children, he was asked the inevitable question ("How does it feel to be the husband of the first U.S. woman ambassador?"). Anderson thought solemnly for a moment, eyed the reporters with a twinkle and muttered: "A difficult question...
Like Enemy Airplanes. Bordello-keepers united against the anti-brothel bill and raised a 60 million lire ($96,000) fighting fund. In one house in Milan, any customer signing a petition against the bill was awarded one free visit. The girls and the worried madam in a swank Naples house appealed to venerable Senator Benedetto Croce, Italy's foremost philosopher, to block the bill "so that they too might have a prosperous holy year." Letters against the bill poured in on Senator Merlin, who had herself toured Rome's brothels to collect ammunition for her side...
...Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson, 40, of Red Wing, Minn.-the first woman Ambassador in U.S. history-sailed from New York to take up her post in Copenhagen, Denmark. With her went Johanna, 15, Hans, 11, and Husband John, who was proud not only of his wife's big new job, but of his own small triumph over bureaucracy. At first the State Department, which pays the overseas passage of Ambassadors' wives, ruled that since there had never before been any dealings with an Ambassador's husband, he would have to pay his own way. Anderson kept demanding...