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...Horrible Scar...
Ever since the Centralia, Wash, massacre of 1919, the nation's most potent strikebreaking force has been the American Legion. Nevertheless, most celebrated non-laborite invited to address last week's convention was the Legion's corpulent new National Commander James Raymond ("Ray") Murphy. Though scar-faced President Green later glossed over "mistakes by some Legionnaires" in past labor disputes, Mr. Murphy was there to ask the Federation to join the Legion (and the Daughters of the American Revolution) in a great nationwide Red-hunt. A number of radical labor delegates had absented themselves from the hall...
...Perry's accounts of his own undergraduate days at Williams, and his studies in Berlin and Strassburg. He was captain and catcher of his class baseball team at Williams, and recalls how hazardous the sport then was. "If we were hurt, we were hurt. I still carry the scar of a left finger badly broken by a foul tip; I remember pushing the bone back under the skin, wrapping a handkerchief around it and playing the game out, but any one of us would have preferred to lose a finger rather than lose a ball game...
Bedside bulletins indicated that this ticklish operation went off satisfactorily last week. For a few months Princess Mary's neck will show a thin red line, thereafter a thread of scar almost impossible to discern...
Said Dr. Sheehan: "When a competent plastic surgeon performs this sort of an operation no scar remains which a photograph will reveal. Only a sharp eye can detect the line of the incision in vivo...