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Silver Lining. In Stockholm, after removing 39 teaspoons and two lead pencils from a patient's stomach, Dr. Arne Bergkvist learned that the patient planned to set a record of 50 stomach operations, had already undergone...
Clean Sweep. In Milwaukee, when the Milwaukee county board discovered that 15 volumes of its records were missing, Courthouse Janitor Harry Stys sheepishly returned them, explained that he had borrowed them to check the voting record of his opponent in the election race for, county board supervisor...
Died. Jim Bottomley, 59, jaunty left-handed first baseman who helped bat the St. Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant four times in a decade (1922-32), in one game (1924) batted in twelve runs on six hits, the major league record; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...
...front of a display typewriter and banged out a desperate note: "Why don't you wait on me?" All over the U.S. last week, harried clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate hordes of well-heeled customers who nocked into the stores for a record Christmas-buying spree. Dun & Bradstreet analysts estimated that sales in the nation's department stores and mail-order houses will reach a record $2.4 billion in December, up $200 million from 1958, the previous record...
...high economy bounced along on other fronts, with only a few bumps to slow its headlong pace: ¶ Employment in the U.S. in November reached 65,640,000, a record for the month, despite a decline of 1,191,000 in the number of jobs from October and a rise in unemployment to 3,670,000. Most of the unemployment rise was due to layoffs in industries depending on steel; the decline in jobs, bigger than the rise in unemployment, indicated that many workers retired from the labor force. ¶Automakers scheduled production at 90% of the output...