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...petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...
Veteran fullback Mike Scully will make his season debut, having sat out last week's game to allow his pre-season practice injury an extra week to mend. Scully's appearance at fullback will send Dick Harrop back to his natural position of halfback...
...possible surprise Crimson starter will be Myles Huntington, last year's regular second baseman, who was injured in the third Dartmouth hockey game and spent the early part of the baseball season waiting for a broken shoulder to mend...
...beginning years, Hadden was TIME'S editor, Luce its business manager; later, by agreement, they switched jobs. Editor Hadden liked to liven things up by scoffing in print at advertisers' wares, tartly tell his hard-to-come-by readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted...
...cancer is caused by environment, said the Institute's Dn A. V. Diebert. Exposure to too much sun may cause it; cancer of the skin is three times as prevalent in the South as in the North. Cancer may also be included among occupational hazards. Men who mend fishnets for a living have a high rate, added Cameron, because they hold the bobbin in their mouths, and get tar smudges on their lips. Fumes from tar-surfaced roads may also be a hazard. Pacific island natives who chew tar-bearing betel nuts have a high rate of cancer...