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...burn the cities of Spain and China, Author Mumford blew up with a pop heard round the publishing world. In Men Must Act he demanded complete severance of U. S. diplomatic relations with, complete boycott of, Germany, Italy, Japan. He praised the assassination of Huey Long as a political stitch in time. When New Republicans stirred with embarrassment, but declined to get down from the left end of the liberal fence, Author Mumford loudly parted company with The New Republic...
...sewing up, begins. . . . The surgeon weaves the suture neatly around the base of the [sterilized] appendix stump so that it may be drawn closed in much the same manner you would close a tobacco sack. Next he will fold in the end of the appendix with a cross-stitch on top of it so there will be nothing left to cause trouble, such as adhesions...
There are those in clean white coats with brightly stained nails and perfect manicures. These are the midinettes of Paris, whose nimble fingers no longer stitch gowns but assemble, in the largest plant of its kind on earth, the delicate wiring of radio sets for airplanes and ships...
...condemnation of the Student Union's "Cradle Will Rock," he has discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter who has had the necessity to walk along these through fares late at night, realizes the benefits of this police protection." To prove that he knows of what he is talking, Mickie...
Died. Ford Sterling, 55 (real name, George F. Stitch), tuft-bearded, swizzle-eyebrowed chief of the Mack Sennett Keystone Cops later a stock cinemactor; of thrombosis; in Hollywood, Calif...