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...what O'Nolan describes as "socalled English" three days of the week; in "the kingly and melodious Irish" on the other three. It is as atmospheric of Dublin as the flower-&-vegetable women of Moore Street, or the giant Nelson's pillar which keeps a bleak eye socket on the drizzled city. Because he works as Assistant Principal, Local Government and Public Health officer all week, O'Nolan writes all six columns on Sunday...
...heard no more, expected never to hear. One new Catalina was charged off as "lost on ferry." Six hours later the boat, with its truncated wing raffish as an empty tooth socket, turned up at a United Kingdom seaport, lurched to a landing. Somehow its pilots had straightened it out, just off the water, flown it in-with no banking controls. It was another incredible episode in the saga of the Catalina, which the U.S. Navy calls...
...Sufferers from athlete's foot often have to throw out all their shoes, because they are breeding spots for the offending fungus. Last week Bernard Soep, a Boston industrial designer, demonstrated a new shoe sterilizer-an inexpensive ultraviolet bulb that can be plugged into an ordinary light socket, inserted into a shoe...
...Andrews' collection showed beautifully wrought cupboards, chests, beds, trestle tables, chairs with ball-&-socket joints that could be tilted backward, coopersware, woven articles, primitive drawings of saints and heavenly visions, a complete herb shop. Since the Shakers despised anything so "giddy" as decoration, were even leary of curves, the collection was functional...
Last week the wry-crossed flag of Germany floated blood-red over counting houses and office buildings where Continental Europe's No. 1 commercial nation. The Netherlands, had transacted the rich business of her vast empire. But bare as a tooth socket was many a captured vault and till. For months their contents had been quietly moving to safer places and in the few hours while her Army threw itself before the Nazi drive. Holland's great commercial machine completed the fastest and biggest business evacuation in world military history...