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Machinist's Mate. Dave sold newspapers and Christmas trees, fished in houseboat-bordered Lake Union to piece out the family fortunes. His mother worked in a laundry. He never forgot waiting for her outside its steamy windows while she drudged on late at night. Eyeing the ornate houses of the rich on Capitol Hill, Dave resolved to be as good as any of them...
...salesman, a jurist peddling candy, a ballet dancer spewing venom, a famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone call to Bernard Baruch...
...center, Holy Cross has 202-pound Jim Deffley, playing his third year as varsity pivotman, and highly regarded by Crusader followers for his vicious tackling. The left guard is Hank Beaulieu, 196 pounds of muscular energy. His running mate on the other side of the line, Jim Reilly, weighs 189 pounds...
Nobody seems to know how often a male mosquito can mate. Perhaps he can mate only once, or at most a few times. If so, a sharp reduction (by siren song) of the number of males in a swamp will condemn most of the females to spinsterhood. They will lay unfertilized eggs and the next mosquito generation will be too sparse to distribute much malaria...
...Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from ads as men turned to the soft, collar-attached shirt. Cluett, Peabody almost vanished with...