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Newsmen write almost anything. They scour the University for interesting or queer professors. They can cover athletics, talk to coaches. They interview backstage. They probe and investigate and expose. All this is open to the news candidate...
...Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national best-seller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Paramount's Cindy Lou (Mary Martin) is an out-of-work Broadway chorine who scurries to her ancestral Southern home after learning that a Broadway director (night-blooming Don Ameche) is Dixie-bound to scour the South for a sure-nuf Southern belle to play the lead in a Broadway musicomedy. She gets the job after butting into a swimming pool a rival actress with a very high cruising speed...
...nothing new under the sun is TIME'S reference (Dec. 30) to experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan with urea to combat tooth decay. Gaius Valerius Catullus, about 2,000 years ago, wrote: (Ad Egnatius, Canto XXXIX) ". . .We know the Spanish custom, how Spaniards clean their teeth and scour their gums with the same water that issues from their bladders. ... If your teeth are clean, we know how you have used your urine...
...make a sweep along the Italian south coast at a moment when the Italians might suppose him preoccupied with disarming surrendered French units at Alexandria, Sir Andrew took his squadron, led by his flagship, the War spite, and two sister battleships on a full-speed dash westward. To scour the sea carefully and not reveal his full force, it was natural for Sir Andrew to split his command into two or more columns, one of which was the force seen by the Italian scout south of Crete. In the night the columns made rendezvous. Off Cape Spartivento next...
...description of itself the Farmer's Wife ran in a series of lively advertising promotion ads in the New Yorker last fall. No newsstands carry the Farmer's Wife but it goes through the mail anywhere at $1 for three years. Circulation teams of women scour the richer byways for more readers. Six field editors, including Bess M. Rowe, who probably knows personally more farm women than anyone else in the U. S., constantly circulate over 100,000 rural miles each year, keeping Managing Editor F. W. Beckman in touch with his readers. A sort of countrified Delineator...