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Heat Rash. In Toronto, shortly after hauling away a bus rider clad only in his undershirt, police rushed out again to nab a nonchalant pedestrian who wore only his dress shirt...
...signed a $6.4 billion supplemental military appropriations bill, which brought the arms spending for the fiscal year to more than $48 billion, about three times as much as he was asking before Korea. The President also signed an urgently needed $365 million deficiency appropriations bill, but complained about a rider which forbids aid to any nation shipping strategic materials to Communist countries. Much had been done to stop such trade, he said, and more could be done through diplomatic "cooperation" than through "coercion." He asked Congress to repeal the rider...
Radio-TV Comic Arthur Godfrey, whose formal higher education consisted of "one short year at Hasbrouck Heights High School" in New Jersey, got an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Rider College in Trenton, N J. Then Dr. Godfrey, who makes close to $1,000,000 a year, gave the students some unorthodox commencement advice: "Don't try to conquer the world. Remember the more you earn, the more you pay in taxes. You can't become wealthy today...
...thereabouts), tradition calls for her to retire into the hills and quaff a poison compounded of crocodile entrails. This was the way it was in the days of Mujaji I and in the days of Mujaji II (the light-skinned queen who served as a model for H. Rider Haggard's all-powerful She) who dutifully killed herself...
...barrier, a pair of long shots, Nickel Coin (40-to-1) and Royal Tan (22-to-1), were neck & neck. Royal Tan crashed into the final hurdle, limped home across the finish line as Nickel Coin breezed to a six-length victory. A poor third: Derrinstown, who threw his rider but was remounted...