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...Landon says modestly: 'It was easy. We just decided to do it and we did it.' " The 48-year-old subject of these eulogies is also something of a nine-day wonder to the G. 0. P. directorate as well, for he was the only Republican elected to an office higher than Representative in both the New Deal landslides of 1932 and 1934. On the record, Governor Landon might claim to be currently the Party's ablest vote-getter. Governor Landon's chief distinction, that of being a Great Economizer, has already been developed into...
...Chicago) Baby Ruth pays no royalties to Babe Ruth because it was named ostensibly for the late President Cleveland's daughter "Baby Ruth,'' who died of diphtheria in 1904 at the age of 12. Curtiss launched 100 new bars, of which 87 were quick failures, twelve nine-day wonders, and the 100th Baby Ruth. Candy bars named No Kiddin', Truluv, Hoky Poky, Lobster Patty, Chicken Dinner and Fat Emma have nickered fitfully. A few old reliables hold their places on the counters beside the cash registers: Nestle's almond & milk chocolate bars, Sweets...
During their nine-day session in Tomlinson Hall, delegates in their freshly-brushed Sunday suits...
...more sure the cure. Method of seeking cures- for anything from headache to cancer-is to bathe thrice, praying the while. But the old and the obese content themselves with a few splashes. Less credulous Catholics have the full approval of the Church in offering novenas (nine-day prayers) in honor of the Virgin, and going on solemn Assumption processions through their parishes. The Assumption is one of six holy days of obligation for U.S. Catholics, on which mass must be attended as on Sunday, under pain of mortal sin. The underlying idea-that the body of Virgin Mary...
...Angeles evangelist, and her husband Brother David L. Hutton, 30, 25O-lb. dimpled tenor, paused in Manhattan on their way to Boston to conduct a nine-day revival. Sister Aimee was svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised...