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...Despite the rise in auto accidents, the home is still more dangerous than the highway, 15 Rhode Island hospitals found. In the six months ending July 31, they had 7,334 admissions as a result of home accidents, more than double the highway figure. Half the victims were under ten. Most dangerous room: the kitchen. ¶ "The physician who sells his testimony to the highest bidder and shades his testimony to the extent that he is paid" should have his license revoked, A.M.A. President Dwight Murray told the American Bar Association. And, he added, so should the lawyer who hired...
...Rhode Island (16): If Stevenson really shoots for a first-ballot nomination he can get all 16 of Rhode Island's votes, including that of Kefauver Adviser Howard McGrath...
...every four voters who turn out-because of its concentration in the key states and cities of the North." The paper lists 14 states with 261 electoral votes: New York (with population estimated at 32% Catholic), Pennsylvania (29%), Illinois (30%), New Jersey (39%), Massachusetts (50%), Connecticut (49%), Rhode Island (60%), California (22%), Michigan (24%), Minnesota (24%), Ohio (20%), Wisconsin (32%), Maryland (21%), and Montana...
...Rhode Island (16): Probably 13½ for Stevenson, 1 for Kefauver, 1½ undecided...
...soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration of Independence), blesses an oblivious salt with rum, while Captain Ambrose Page neatly vomits in his pocket. The time...