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...Jugoslavia last Christmas. He saw his mother for the first time in 40 years and went with her to the church, bride-hunting. He looked over 30 girls who knew why he had come, but found none he liked. About to return to Alaska, he at last found one Para Krka, 22, the placid, pretty, dark-haired daughter of a pensioned gendarme and his innkeeping wife. "Everything it's just the way I got it in my mind since I was a youth, only she ain't quite so tall as I figured," said Martin Slisco...
...this week Martin Slisco's waiting had a happy ending. Red tape had finally been cut and down the gangplank of the Aquitania when it docked in Manhattan came dark-eyed Para Krka, ready to be installed as queen of the Koyukuk...
Prontylin is the trade name for a dye which doctors call sulfanilamide. Chemists call it para-aminobenzenesulf onamide. How it kills gonococci is anyone's guess. Best guess is that it stimulates production of white blood corpuscles which in turn destroy the germs...
...able to start his civil war near home. President Vargas is most unpopular in Sao Paulo, which last week saw the first real chance in seven years to squeeze back into power through a brawl in Rio Grande. Strongly nationalist President Vargas is unpopular also in such States as Para and Amazonas, whose ambitious plans to import cheap Japanese labor for their rubber plantations the President halted with his 1934 immigration law. Under its terms, immigration from any nation is restricted in any year to 2% of its total immigrants in the past 50 years...
...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...