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While Germany's representatives in the U. S. spluttered that no statement of condition could be demanded of a sovereign nation, SEC's five members (three Democrats & two Republicans in full accord) enjoyed the well-earned slap which they had given the Nazi face...
Newsboys are also newspapermen, and a true old timer is San Antonio's Horace Greeley J. Heckman, a stoop-shouldered, loose-jointed, slap-happy gaffer of 64, who has been selling the Light on the corner of Travis and North St. Mary's Streets for the past 17 years. Newsboy Heckman says he is an M.A. (for Master Accountant), has worked in eight banks and sold newspapers in New York, California, Mexico, South America and at the Paris Exposition of 1900. He wears an old straw hat and baggy breeches, drinks "sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle...
AMERICANS READING TIME JUNE 19 WONDER IF TWA'S FACE ISN'T RED? TIME'S ARTICLE MUCH NEEDED SLAP AT AMERICAN JOURNALISM, WHICH PERHAPS WILL LEARN THAT HEROES ARE OFTEN HUMANS...
When a baby contentedly sucks his thumb after meals, don't slap his hand or bind it with tape. Leave him alone, says Dr. William Siddon Langford of Manhattan. Contrary to the beliefs of most parents and pediatricians, thumb-sucking in infants is a harmless pleasure. No scientist has ever proved, said Dr. Langford, talking to the American Academy of Pediatrics last week, that thumb-sucking 1) introduces germs into tonsils and stomach, 2) stimulates harmful sexual activity, or 3) causes receding jaws and buckteeth. Thumb-sucking may push milk teeth slightly out of line...
...admirers, including the Mexican Ambassador to the U. S. and a posse of his own relatives, rushed out to shake his hand, kiss him, slap his back. For Fran cisco Sarabia had set a new record of 10 hrs. 48 min. for the Mexico City-New York flight, beating the old record (set by the late Amelia Earhart...