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...UNVANQUISHED-William Faulk- ner-Random House...
...peccadillo. Two years ago, when Bobby was sick, the Mauch twins got a chemistry set. With it they have since compounded a mixture of ink and ketchup for making spots on bedspreads; an ink spot remover, for removing the spots; and a rotten egg extract, for harmlessly discommoding din ner guests at the Mauch apartment on Franklin Avenue...
...field. The Brothers Cox stem from pre-Revolutionary New Hampshire stock, were raised in Manchester, where their father was in business. John Hancock's Cox earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Dart mouth (Class of 1893). He then studied law at Boston University, was long a part ner of William Morgan Butler, onetime (1924-26) Senator from Massachusetts and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. Now 65, punctual, precise, New England-ish, Guy Cox likes to fish, farm, browse through his favorite authors, who include Horace, Catullus, Tacitus, Juvenal, Proust, Havelock Ellis...
Then Germany, which was sending blobby pictures with the mechanical scan ner, heard of Farnsworth. To his Philadelphia laboratories went suave, crisp Dr. Paul Goerz, head of Fernseh Radioaktien-gesellschaft of Berlin, and a tall, super cilious radio engineer named Rudolph Moeller. After secret conferences and demonstrations, the Germans leased the Farnsworth system for Fernseh, backed by the Nazi Government. The price was not revealed, but as part payment Farnsworth got U. S. rights to Bosch and Zeiss patents controlled by Fernseh. These include a yellow receiving screen which is supposed to be superior to RCA-Victor's green...
Four days later the Vice President bowled into the White House, met RFChairman Jesse Jones. Had Texan Garner really appeared before Emperor Hirohito in his stocking feet? inquired Texan Jones. "No, sir," said Texan Gar ner, "they didn't make me take off my shoes." Pulling up his trousers, he ex hibited white socks above his high boots. ''See those? Well, they're the same socks I wore when I left Washington. Yep, Mrs. Garner washed them every day and darned them twice...