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...Atlanta, one of his first moves was to have the old building cleaned of half a century's grime and soot. Then he repainted the inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...
...from common, Dr. Althausen counted himself lucky when, on a visit to Australia last year, he ran across a third and most unusual case A wiry, freckled, 50-year-old seaman named Bergman had been left with only two feet of jejunum and duodenum. He worked on a soot-grimed freighter pitching and rolling across Bass Strait between Melbourne and Tasmania. Althausen and Melbourne's Dr. Ronald Doig made one interesting discovery in studying the sailor: it made no difference to his two feet of small intestine whether he got predigested or ordinary food. Says Althausen: It proved...
Smoke-Bursts & Soot-Falls. As a comic strip, Capp's Li'l Abner is not the most popular in the U.S.: it can be accurately described only as one of the top five-a group which also includes Little Orphan Annie, Blondie, Dick Tracy and Joe Palooka. At least two of them, Blondie and Dick Tracy, claim more readers, but the promotion departments of national syndicates fire off such billowing smoke-bursts of conflicting claims that the truth of the matter has long since been buried under a soot-fall of verbiage...
...piled out last week for one of the biggest rags of their undergraduate lives. Boys & girls donned dungarees, pulled on their shabbiest shirts and football jerseys. Then they crowded into the quadrangle, shouted and shoved, tossed fishheads about, along with such oddments as catsup, rotten fruit and bags of soot. They roared irreverent chants about their retiring rector: "Walter Elliot* has a big, beery nose...
...sprinkling of residences. This morning Mapo wore a different look. The burned and blackened remains of the boulevard's shops and homes sent clouds of acrid smoke billowing over the city. Buildings still ablaze showered sparks and ashes high into the air to cascade down on red-eyed, soot-faced marines...