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...many a euphemizing U.S. furrier, a skunk is not a skunk at all. It is a "genuine civet cat," "Alaska sable" or "black marten." For four years, the Federal Trade Commission has been trying to get Congress to outlaw fancy names for common furs, last week finally won out when President Truman signed such a bill. Under it, the FTC will issue a "Fur Products Name Guide," which furriers will have to obey, e.g., black Manchurian dogs will be known as black Manchurian dogs, and not as "Belgium lynx" or "black poiret...
...later, Kan reappeared in Nanking explaining limply that he had been "re-educated by the magnanimous people's government." He went back to his storytelling, but somehow his heart did not seem to be in it. Then one day he told his fans the story of a legendary outlaw who had killed a tiger by slamming it against a rock. "That mountain cat was tough," grinned Kan, "but no match for that rock." His audience rocked and rolled with laughter, for in Chinese the word for cat sounds very much like Mao (as in Mao Tse-tung...
...late 1860s, just about the time Jesse James was blossoming in the Midwest, the four Reno boys were shooting up the area with a vigor that set a pattern for all outlaw brotherhoods to come. Though sadly neglected by folklore and Hollywood, the Reno boys were more original than the James or Younger brothers; they were the first to stage a train robbery in the U.S. (near Seymour, Ind. on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad), and once they burned an entire town (Rockford, Ind.) just so they could buy up its land for a bargain...
...years. When local sheriffs proved unable to catch them, the victimized express company called in Allan Pinkerton, head of a small Chicago detective agency that was already using such new methods as infiltrating bandit gangs and keeping an elaborate file of criminal information. Soon the Pinkertons had all the outlaw Renos behind bars. While three of them were awaiting trial, a mob of vigilantes strung them...
...Committee on Rules recently urged the Legislature to defer all this legislation for a year of study. If the House does not push through the Ober Law Bill as the substitute for the Rules Committee's suggestion--the loyalty oath bills, the teacher control bills, and the bill to outlaw Communism will probably die a quite death...