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Cure. In Newport, R.I., when a spider landed on ten-year-old Patricia Ann Toppa's head, her friend, John O'Brien, 12, gallantly rushed to the rescue, knocked out both spider and Patricia Ann with his baseball...
...tick, a remote cousin of the spider, is no true insect. Ticks and spiders have eight legs; bona fide insects have only six, the legal limit set by science. The tick's extra pair of legs serves him well. When a tick senses an approaching meal, he hangs on to a low bush by his two hind legs and gropes hopefully with the other six. If, animal or man brushes past the bush, the tick grabs on with all eight legs, makes for the skin. Having attached himself, the tick bores in with his hard snout and begins...
...surprises, as usual, popped out of Branch Rickey's Brooklyn surprise box. First, a last-minute switch nudged aging Arky Vaughan off third base, and gave the job to scrawny John ("Spider") Jorgensen; the rookie from Montreal batted in six runs in one game. Then Rickey announced that soft-spoken Burt Shotton, 62, would succeed exile Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as manager of the Dodgers...
...called for more than a routine cable. U.P. president Hugh Baillie personally ordered Reynolds fired. Walter Rundle, China bureau chief at Shanghai, flew to Peiping to break the news. The U.P. was fed up with such Packard specials as the Russian "evacuation" of Dairen last fall, the "human-headed spider" he discovered near Peiping, and the discovery of a Russian atomic bomb plant on Lake Baikal...
Inside its first cover (Montana's Fort Peck dam, by Margaret Bourke-White), the 225,000 charter subscribers and 200,000 newsstand buyers found picture stories of King Edward VIII, the black widow spider, Robert Taylor, and Spain in civil...