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...Payson, toy manufacturer of Hackensack, N.J., announced that her firm would stop making penny banks, concentrate on toy banks that took coins of higher mintage. These days, she said, "most children do not show much appreciation for anything less than a dime." ¶ The bug shield-that plastic gadget on the snouts of innumerable cars, designed to deflect bugs (and snow) from the windshield-received a legal setback. Connecticut banned it on the ground that it obstructed the driver's view of the road. ¶ The city of Frederick, Md. (pop. 18,000), whose place in literature was made...
...wife, Eleanor Holm, onetime Olympic swimmer and Aquacade beauty. "Now is the time to have a wife," he muttered, and got on the telephone. Eleanor, a wife in need, arrived soon after Joyce had been taken away in an ambulance; she pitched in, and did her best to help shield Rose from reporters and photographers. In the hospital, in no danger, Joyce was questioned by police. Why had she done it? Between puffs on a cigarette, she explained: "I just love; razor blades...
...government did not have the money to pay for it and the U.S. State Department did nothing to help the Iranians get it. The first ray of hope: last week President Truman asked Congress to appropriate $8.5 billion for foreign military and economic aid to help build "a defensive shield against aggression." Of this sum, $415 million would be set aside for Greece, Turkey and Iran...
With Soap & Water. With a portable Alpha counter the technicians began retracing the patrolman's path from the plant all the way to Richland. The path was none too well marked. He had slipped the hot wrench into his metal lunchbox, and the box had acted as a shield-which frustrated the counter and had protected the patrolman's fellow passengers on the long bus ride home. But the patrolman, his home, his car, and a few areas around the plant (where he had carried the wrench in his hand) were hot enough to make the detectors sound...
...National Liberation. One of his most famous adventures was in 1934 in Marseille, when a Croat assassin attacked the car in which he was riding with Yugoslavia's King Alexander, killed the King (and France's Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou), wounded Georges while he tried to shield the King...