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Died. Marion Sayle Taylor, 52, radio's "Voice of Experience"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Squat, rain-barrel-voiced, he dispensed advice on everything from cookery to marital relations, at the peak of his popularity a few years ago drew from listeners some 30,000 anxious letters a week. He was married three times, divorced twice...
...cold storage, from the squat, thick-walled ice houses of villages to the glistening refrigerator plants of big cities, are record stocks of vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter and cheese, frozen chickens, near-record stocks of beef, pork, slabs of lard. Stored in farmers' dirt-walled cellars, or in the basements of city groceries, is a profusion of potatoes, cabbages, onions, apples, turnips, rutabagas, yams...
Sinkiang is cut and laced by towering mountains. One of the oldest traditional ways out is the flat, salty waste of the Gobi Desert. This way the great caravan of Kazaks started. There were 20,000 people, with huge herds of sheep, camels and squat Mongolian ponies...
...driver's seat now sits squat, swarthy Robert Sidney Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans. Grandson of an Italian immigrant, Maestri is one of the richest men in Louisiana. His father made a fortune selling furniture to the love-for-sale ladies in the cribs of the Vieux Carré. When the cribs were raided, old man Maestri repossessed the furniture, sold it over & over. Bob Maestri put his inheritance in real estate...
...Minister Aranha was planning to dicker, he has a good man to talk to. Chile's new Acting President Mendez has earned himself a notable reputation as a peacemaker and conciliator. When he entered national politics last year the squat, sallow, middle-aged doctor from Coquim-bo was nicknamed Don Geronimo el Anonimo. Recently he emerged from anonymity to the leadership of the turbulent Radical Party. He had not been a member of the Cabinet until last week when Don Tinto boosted him to the Ministry of the Interior so that he would be next in Presidential succession...