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...forbidding, grey Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary a convict petitioned the Department of Justice for the removal from his chest of a tattoo vowing eternal devotion to "Mary"; he was about to be released and wanted to marry a girl with another name. Over the Rio Grande Immigration Service patrolmen peered from their light plane in search of the Mexican wetbacks who would, if they could, slip across the border in illegal droves to work on U.S. ranches. In Tacoma, Wash, a federal grand jury accused David Daniel Beck, a labor giant with a turnip torso, of , cheating on his income taxes...
IRRADIATED COAL DUST is being tried as fuel by Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. Working to develop atomic locomotive company found that gamma rays can dissolve crushed coal to such fineness that when it is added to diesel oil it burns up completely, increases oil's energy content. Railroad figures atomic coal dust could cut fuel bill by about It a gallon...
Along the Rio Grande. At 17, Belloc rounded off his education at the College Stanislas in Paris, armed with a testimonial from the great Cardinal Newman himself. But by then he was in full rebellion against everything of a "stuffy" nature. Catholic or non-Catholic. He had begun to draw, paint, write stories; he yearned for action, detested orthodox stability, made the discovery that aristocrats and Jews were prime enemies of the people. "How I long for the Great War!'' he wrote in 1889. "It will sweep Europe like a broom, it will make Kings jump like coffee...
...tenacity. Kept dangling by Elodie Hogan, a Catholic girl from California whom he had met in London, Belloc followed her home. He traveled steerage to New York, then "gambled his way across the plains." When his luck and money gave out, he continued on foot "along the Denver and Rio Grande,'' on to San Francisco. Mother Hogan was far from pleased to see the "tattered and penniless Frenchman." Nor could Belloc overcome Elodie's resistance (she wanted to be a nun) until five years of relentless courtship-by mail -persuaded her at last into happy marriage. Eighteen...
Item: children and young adults in Texas should already have had at least two (better, three) shots by this week, when polio begins its annual epidemic advance northward from the Rio Grande. But in El Paso, one of the cities where polio normally breaks out earliest, the program was off indefinitely, and it was bogged down in Houston and Dallas...