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...World. In Philadelphia, the police department had to return 21 snub-nosed, .38-cal. revolvers it had ordered for its policewomen, after it discovered that the ladies were not strong enough to pull the triggers...
Skidless Shine. A tough, nonslippery floor wax is being test-marketed by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. For use on both hardwood and linoleums, the Safety Floor Wax contains tiny, gripping particles of Du Font's Ludox (colloidal silica) which snub the forward motion of a shoe hitting the shiny floor, bring it to a safe and sure-footed stop.. Price: $1.29 a quart...
Ever since the Soviet bloc began to snub and boycott Trygve Lie two years ago, the U.N. has been without a truly effective secretary general. Last week, as part of its diplomatic new look, Russia at last agreed with its fellow members on the Security Council on a successor to Lie, who submitted his resignation last fall...
Innocent Eye. Hélene Noris is a lonely, wide-eyed girl with her snub nose pressed flat against the windowpane of life. Her widowed father is a stuffy businessman parceling his time between his shops, his stocks and his political ambitions. When Hélene wanders to the kitchen for companionship, the maid shoos her out, tells her: "Masters are masters and servants are servants! Society makes these rules." To give her life a dash of drama, Hélene pretends, when in school, not to know her lessons-just to hear her classmates titter and her teachers upbraid...
...otherwise it would look as if she was an ordinary Duchess." When he made a helpful suggestion about a maid of honor, it came back with the words: "The Queen has yet to learn that Capt. Ponsonby has anything to do with the Maids of Honor." Much the same snub was inflicted on an earnest clergyman who tried to rouse Victoria's sympathy for the poor by mentioning a house where seven had to use one bed. "Had I been one of them," observed the Queen, "I would have slept on the floor...