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...Widow's Devotion. Mom's interest in the gadget business, she told people, was abated by the death of her husband, Rear Admiral Clarence Mason Richards, U.S.N. Mrs. Richards spoke of her husband as "the Skipper," but said that "most of his Navy friends called him 'Possum Belly.' " When the Skipper died in 1944, Mom decided that, out of respect for his memory, she should wear a war widow's pin. To her surprise, she found that there were no pins for war widows...
...pedestrians were colliding with their member cars, hopefully set out to popularize tail lights for the man in the street. The lights, two-inch plastic reflectors, come in red, orange or yellow, can be worn on the wrist, on a handbag or pinned to clothing-preferably just above the rear bumper...
Avenida Ejercito Nacional, stretching out through Mexico City's glittery west side suburbs, is tree-shaded and quiet. One afternoon last week its peace dissolved in sounds familiar to every North American -the scream of braked tires, the clatter and bang of a rear-end collision. A sleek new Oldsmobile, with a pretty girl at the wheel, had smashed into a new Buick...
...that would have debased a Hemingway hero. Then he shot his car into reverse. The girl saw what was coming, jumped from her car and stood on the curb. "Policia! Policia! Socorro! Socorro!" (Police! Help!), she screamed. With a vengeful snarl, the Buick butted into the Oldsmobile's rear, slammed the back seat into the front" and shattered all the windows...
...wind after a false start at 7:40 o'clock, Lowell House took the lead with a brisk 32, and was still ahead under the Harvard Bridge. Beyond the bridge, the five shells crowded together and the ensuing melee left Kirkland and Leverett with looked oars hopelessly in the rear...