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...Jeannette, Pa., a gun club got ready to pot any Nazi parachutists descending from the skies; the Pennsylvania legislature studied ways to protect industrial plants from air raids; in Brooklyn a war-crazed British sailor danced despairingly on a high window ledge; in Manhattan and Seattle, two men killed themselves because of news; in Kirkland, Wash. a lady letter-writer noted approvingly that a coffee shop had changed "hamburger" on the menu to "liberty steak...
Every student who signs up to take the N. R. O. T. C. course in the Freshman year must pass a physical examination and is then expected to finish the entire four years and to become a full-fledged sailor. The Mil Sci student, on the other hand, may drop out at the end either of his first or his second year and remain a quarter or a half of a soldier. Only if he wishes to continue must he pass a physical examination...
Founded in 1737 by a wealthy French sailor, Charity is one of the oldest general hospitals in the U. S. Its troubles began in 1928 when Huey Long kicked out the old director, appointed in his place Surgeon Arthur Vidrine, a promising young man scarcely out of medical school. Then Huey invited Cajuns, Creoles and hillbillies to come on in for quick cures. Result: patients were packed two and three in a bed, many sleeping in the halls, under crumbling plaster...
Four inches in diameter, deep orange in color, Tetra Marigold has heavy, vigorous petals which make the flower exception ally durable both on the stalk and after cutting. "The colchicine," explained Mr. Burpee, "has about the same effect on the marigold as spinach on Popeye the Sailor...
...wagons, a producer's office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks on his own legs, and even he is stagy...