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Before Mary Eileen Spargo was married nine years ago, she drew $1,200 from her bank account, which she closed, and collected a check for $2,700 from her lawyer for the sale of property. Her husband, a tailor's presser named George Cecil Horry, announced that he was taking Mary Eileen to England. Instead, the couple left on a honeymoon trip to New Zealand's lonely Waitakere Mountains. The bride was never seen again...
Norm Watkins, Shep Brown, and Bob Berke built up a slim lead over Dewhom the meet depended, this time as Armond, Presser, and Irwin. Joe Fox and Smyly were once again the men on opposing captains...
Willie Lurye was a mild-looking, curly-haired little fellow who would give a man the shirt off his back, people said. Like his Papa, who had been a cigar maker in Sam Gompers' union, he was hot for unions. Willie was a dress presser in the biggest in New York, the International Ladies' Garment Workers (405,000 members). With a wife and four kids to look after, Willie gave up a $180-a-week pressing job last fall to work for $80 as a special organizer: there were still some non-union no-good-nicks...
Cabbage, Dr. Cheney found, contained a lot of vitamin U, and seemed to keep guinea pigs from getting ulcers. In California Medicine, he reported results of a five-month test on 13 patients. He gave them a quart of cabbage juice a day, squeezed out by a juice presser from fresh raw cabbage. They also got a fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured...
Local entrepreneur, sportsman, and presser of men's pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...