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...morning last October, Jean Narcy, a road mender of Haute-Marne, France, was riding to work on his bicycle. In a wheat field he saw a little whiskered man just under 4 ft. tall, who wore a fur coat, an. orange corset and a plush...
...Midget Mender. A tiny hand loom for darning socks was put on sale by Selectric Products Co., Lynwood; Calif. Called the "Darn Easy," it consists of a small slide with hooks on its underside, is shuttled back & forth with finger and thumb. Price...
...been a sheep drover, navvy, gold prospector, ship's cook, waiter, locksmith, umbrella mender, a seller of fried fish, and a spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and chaos and leap up on the stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said...
...Pentagon, Whitehair has acted like a smalltime politician in an oversize job. During business hours, he regularly keeps admirals with high-priority business stacked waiting outside his plush-lined office, while he leisurely hashes over old times with political cronies. An expert fence mender, Whitehair recently had the Navy postpone a minor ship-recommissioning ceremony, at Green Cove Springs, Fla., until he could get down there last week to harangue the home folks...
Under his postwar Labor Party premiership, Norway has made Western Europe's greatest gains over prewar industrial production levels. But Road-Mender Gerhardsen saw some nasty obstacles in Norway's way to recovery. Moscow-led Communists, as well as patriots like himself, had worked up to postwar power through the resistance movement. Their influence was far greater than their eleven members in the 150-member Storting indicated...