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...Author. Well qualified to speak for her native State, Ruth Suckow (pronounced Soo-ko) was born in Hawarden, Iowa, the daughter of a Congregational minister who moved from church to church all over the State. Author Suckow wrote from childhood, but had more sense than to try to make a living at it. While teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married...
Sneezers at Soo...
...TIME. Nov. 20). Everyone who had been in Chicago, particularly everyone who had eaten in the Congress or Auditorium hotels there, worried for months about a tiny blob called Entamcba histolytica. Doctors would advise them to continue to worry. For, although as an aftermath of the Chicago dysentery outbreak, Soo were known to be infected and 50 to have died, Entameba histolytica may lie dormant for months or years. Cases, some of them traceable directly to Chicago, are sporadically coming to light. Last week amebic dysentery again made headlines, this time in Manhattan...
...Talbott, a portly, indomitable woman of 70, once had notions of becoming a singer herself. Instead she married Harry Elstner Talbott. an engineer who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. They had seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons. Harold, a famed polo player, is a director of Chrysler Corp.. Thompson-Starrett and many another organization. Nelson ("Bud") Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There...
...enter the U. S. For months their only meetings have been aboard the international ferry Agoming running from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. to Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. Sometimes a sympathetic captain let them sit in the engine room to keep warm and hold hands. Last week ice in the Soo temporarily stopped the ferry, ended their romance for the winter...