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...Voyage. In St. Peter, Minn., the weekly Herald ran a classified ad: "WANTED: Man to handle dynamite. Must be prepared to travel unexpectedly...
...Death. Unnerved by the noise, he left without taking any money, but at an all-night restaurant in Spring Valley, Minn., he was more efficient. He shot a waitress, Mrs. Harriet Horsman, 48, and scooped $49 from the till. The cafe owner's wife made the mistake of screaming too. Fred killed her. Then the young couple drove on to Minneapolis to get married. They naively gave the license clerk their correct ages, and were turned down. "But," said Diane primly, "as far as we are concerned, we are legally married...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...
...Harvard Alumni Association has elected John Cowles '21, of Minneapolis, Minn., its president for 1953-54. Three vice-presidents were also elected: Leo Daley '27, of Andover, John S. Fleek '15, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Manley Fleischemann '29, of Buffalo, N.Y. Cowles succeeds Charles C. Cabot '22, of Boston...
...established annual-wage plans without any prodding. As long ago as 1946, the Department of Labor counted 196 companies with plans for guaranteeing minimum employment or pay to their workers. One of the most successful of such plans is that of meat-packing George A. Hormel Co. of Austin, Minn. Started experimentally in 1931, it now covers some 8,000 employees. Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Co. began its famed "Share-the-Production" flexible annual-wage plan in 1935, has continued it, with slight modifications, ever since. Biggest and oldest of all plans is Procter & Gamble's. Begun...