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...that she had dozed at the wheel, she cried: "But I did! That's what caused it all." She confessed her negligence at great length to reporters and the police - practically forcing authorities to take away her driver's license for 3½ months, and prompting some nameless wag to erect a sign at the highway's edge: MRS. ROOSEVELT SLEPT HERE. But the aftermath was a happy one. Everyone recovered. Mrs. Roosevelt's protruding front teeth were broken in the accident; the porcelain caps which replace them subtly changed her whole face and gave...
...nameless horrffr swept over me as I read of the inhumane treatment of Kee Chee [whose sick baby died in a bus - TIME, Nov. 26] and his family. Though these people are illiterate and can do only menial tasks, the breath of life and of free peoples is within them, and they should be treated as such...
...Mass, home, he got little return but publicity and trouble. The sitter and two teen-age girl friends were arrested (TIME, Oct. 29) amid a New York City shopping spree, but not before they had spent $3,000 of the money and had lost all the rest to a nameless big-city sharpie...
...West Coast hot-rod fiends have been making pedestrians leap like kangeroos ever since some nameless hot-rodder rigged a sparkplug in his exhaust pipe and made a profound discovery-that waste gases, thus ignited, produce a spectacular "hoosh" of flame. Last week the Portland, Ore. city council was taking steps to make hot-rod flame-throwing illegal. But the fad was moving faster than the lawmakers ; Longview, Wash, reported with nervous pride that a local rodder was regularly getting a six-foot "hoosh...
...femme fatale, Harry is no fool, and Harry's friend (the nameless narrator of the story) is a retiring writer who wouldn't murder a flea except in print. Moreover, the scene on the Riviera beach is part of a cure, not a calamity...