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Tory's Son. Oddest fact about the New Deal's No. 2 Fiscal officer is that his father is President Hugh Magill of the American Federation of Investors, a pressure group with a thoroughly Tory orientation. In his younger days Father Magill was a liberal who supported the elder La Follette. When Son Roswell was born 42 years ago Father Magill was the high-school principal in Auburn...
...press of Depression, the Installment Plan was asked to move a type of merchandise which could not be repossessed or was worn out before it was paid for. Among credit men this merchandise has the name "soft goods." Department store installments may cover anything from tires to toilet articles. Oddest use of installment selling is for services, ranging from steamship passage to permanent waves...
...copies of everything from the Dubuque Catholic Daily Tribune to the weeklies America and Commonweal, intellectual high for the Catholic press, and the Paulist Fathers' monthly Catholic World. Most professional-looking was the weekly Brooklyn Tablet, whose front page is not unlike that of the New York Times. Oddest was the Catholic Worker, whose editors style themselves "Radicals of the Right," call on employers to recognize workers "not as wage slaves, but as brothers of Christ, members of the Mystical Body...
...Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard's chair" with slots at the sides for poles by which chair & occupant could be carried. Total sales for the week...
...oddest episodes in all medical history was the effort of an 8 ft. 4 in. Irishman named Charles Byrne to escape the dissecting knives of John Hunter, great 18th Century anatomist. Hunter wanted the giant's bones for his medical museum. Byrne opposed the idea and, anticipating an early death as all giants do, planned cunningly to outwit the scientist. When he drank himself to death in London in 1783, aged 22, a London newspaper reported that "the whole tribe of surgeons put in a claim for the poor departed Irishman and surrounded his house, just as harpooners would...