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Naturally. In Memphis, police arrested a 41-year-old woman for strolling on the street in nothing but powder and lipstick, suggested that she dress, were haughtily told: "I've got nothing to hide...
...like a hooked marlin, rattling from stem to stern. Not enemy action but a gunpowder fire of undetermined origin had set off a blast in one of the Saint Paul's forward eight-inch turrets. Damage-control teams pulled 30 bodies out of the steeled compartment while poisonous powder flames were still swirling. For two hours, while the ship stayed in line shelling the shore, shipmates gave artificial respiration to the men. None could be revived: all had died by suffocation. It was the Navy's costliest loss at sea in the Korean...
...looked like something on a Saturday Evening Post cover. The Patriots Day parade, a mixture of blacks, bilious yellows, powder blues, and browns, wound past Littauer Auditorium, up Garden street, and marched onto the Cambridge Common's baseball field. There, the town fathers had set up a stage at home plate, and there the parade spread out to form a phalanx-the American Legionnaires taking up positions in left field...
Switzerland, which has not been invaded since 1815, believes in keeping its powder dry, its nose clean and its cupboard full. Two years ago, fearing a World War III, the Swiss government advised its citizens to stock up their pantries. Last week, apprehensive lest its citizens are becoming too complacent, the War Office urged all householders to look to their larders again. For the first time, the War Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter...
...Myers and Whitehall, already market-testing chlorophyll variations of Ipana and Kolynos, are not rushing to sign up with Rystan; Kolynos, for one, thinks that the patent may not cover its product. Last week the Block Drug Co., which cleaned up by putting the first widely distributed ammoniated tooth powder (Amm-i-dent) on the market, and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet both filed suits seeking to break Rystan's patent...