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Gaining speed with every paragraph, it further relates how President Millard Fillmore was captivated by the contraption after sloshing around in it on a stumping tour, and, despite adverse public opinion, had a similar tub installed in the White House in 1851. Although there is not a word of truth in the whole account, and Mencken has confessed his amiable duplicity repeatedly, connoisseurs of historical anecdote have been snapping it up for 30 years. It is doubtful, however, that any of them ever seized on it as tenaciously as President Harry Truman...
...Millard Wright had spent 15 of his 38 years in jail when, in an attempt to cure his urge to steal, he had a prefrontal lobotomy (cutting of nerve pathways in the forebrain). That was five years ago (TIME, July 14, 1947). For his possible contribution to medical science, Wright drew a light sentence, and he behaved so well that after 2½ years he was paroled. He got married, worked as a bus washer, and his lawyer and physician thought he was going straight...
...homeliest men in Washington. But Phil Perlman is a thoroughgoing lawyer. He began studying law while he was a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, was appointed assistant attorney general and secretary of state of Maryland while in his late 203. Maryland's ex-Senator Millard Tydings helped him get the job of U.S. solicitor general in 1947. ("The greatest spot in the world for a lawyer," he says. "An opportunity to represent the greatest government in the world before the greatest court in the world.") Since then he has argued more cases than any other solicitor general in history...
Major Swimming H--Paul W. Dillingham, Jr., Columbus, Ohio; Charles J. Egan, Jr., Brookline; Kenneth Emerson Urbania, Ill.; Richard J. Fouquet, Bay side, N. Y.; Hugh B. Hartwell, Worcester; David L. Hedberg, Worcester; Ronald E. Huebsch, Darien, Conn.; John J. McNamara, Jr., Boston; John B. Millard Newton; Donald J. Mulvey, Andover, Philip G. Pratt, Windsor, Conn.; Marvin Sandler, Brooklyn; Robert M. Stroud St. Louis, Mo.; Richard C. Wheeler Peabody; Ralph L. Zani, Worcester Thomas L. Barretto, Manager, Newton...
...film that is supposedly about criminal psychology, My Six Convicts strives a bit too hard to be something-for-everybody entertainment. Acting honors go to Gilbert Roland, the volatile gangster, and to Millard Mitchell, the laconic safecracker, who has his day of glory in Kansas City opening a jammed vault at the request of bank authorities...