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...port of Bizerte in Tunisia 50 bearded old Moslem dignitaries, turbaned and in silk robes, presented flowers to M. Daladier. Silk-hatted French officials, in traditional morning garb, gave him European handshakes. The 7,500 British subjects of the protectorate praised French rule in a joint letter to the Premier. The Moslem population of Tunis gave his motorcade a wildly enthusiastic reception...
...tube fine as a hair, he injects a tiny drop of solution containing the virus, previously procured from infected guinea pigs, into the louse's intestinal opening. Then he imprisons the louse in a cage about the size of a matchbox, which has one side covered with fine silk gauze. Through the gauze the lice stick their mandibles. With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife (who have already had typhus, are now immune). After a ten-day incubation period the lice are dissected. About 150 intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar...
...Silk Stocking Parade" and "Film Fun" are the slowest sellers at the Freshman Union news-stand, according to Vincent J. Monti 1G, who runs the stand with Victor E. Gatto...
...city of Kankakee, Ill. (pop. 20,000) was the hometown of the late Pen-&-Inkman Frank D. Waterman, the late Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Cinemactor Fred MacMurray. Purring contentedly in a crook in the Kankakee River 56 miles south of Chicago, it is proud of its humming industries (overalls, silk stockings, furniture, farm implements), is famed for its huge State insane asylum. Last week Kankakee purred so loudly that the whole nation heard...
...overthrow of the shogunate in 1867 and the restoration of power to the Imperial House, the 200-year-old banking house of Mitsui, which had backed the new Emperor Meiji, emerged as the most potent financial force in new Japan. Masuda, now an exporter of rice, tea and silk, joined forces with the Mitsui family in 1876 and launched Mitsui Bussan Kai-sha (Mitsui & Co., Ltd.), the trading firm which became the largest single unit of the vast Mitsui empire...