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...Jersey the storm blocked the huge Brunswick Pike. At one point, near Princeton, 250 motorists left their cars in snowbanks, put up for the night in filling stations, farms, hot dog stands. Chesapeake Bay shipping was partially paralyzed. The Eastern Shore of Maryland lay buried under a foot of snow. The gale lashed its angry tail when it reached Washington, ripped a huge hanging lantern out of the White House porch. In northern Florida, the storm threatened to wreck the citrus fruit crop with subfreezing temperatures at Jacksonville...
Touchdown Clark. Goals from field--Bilodeau 2. Referee Volk. Tufts, Umpire--Pike, Vermont, Linesman--Pendergast, Colby. Time--Four 12-minute periods...
...built in private yards, payment for which will come out of the $238,000,000 public works fund allocated to the Navy (TIME, Aug. 14). He also named some of the new craft as follows: Vincennes (heavy cruiser), Brooklyn, Savannah, Nashville, Philadelphia (light cruisers), Yorktown, Enterprise (aircraft carriers), Porpoise, Pike, Shark, Tarpon (sub-marines...
Baltic Tapeworms. People who eat raw or inadequately cooked pickerel, wall-eyed pike or perch caught in lakes of the north central states risk infection by "broad" Baltic tapeworms, stated Dr. Thomas Byrd Magath of Rochester, Minn. Cooking or freezing kill the worm larvae which the fish harbor. Immigrants from Baltic countries first brought the worm to the U. S. Now in increasing numbers the U. S. is producing its own human verminaries...
...slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike in many a blue moon...