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...recent disaster at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta [TIME, Dec. 16], when fire took the lives of 122 people, will, I sincerely hope, cause a nationwide drive to compel every hotel in the land to place a coil of stout rope in each & every room...
Speeding the Ghost. Most Indians believe in a life after death. But among the Caingang tribe of Brazil the souls of the dead did not want to leave this earth, and offered stout resistance. When a man died, his relatives gathered food and liquor, heaped them around the grave. The neighbors marched round & round, blowing horns, shaking rattles, screaming, and helping themselves from the punchbowl...
...There her copy (such as Macy's famed slogan, "It's Smart To Be Thrifty") established her as the store's highest paid copywriter. She went on to Wanamaker's, then to Gimbels. As its No. 1 huckster for the last six years, stout, bosomy Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, "almost 50," earns almost $100,000 a year for such sloganeering as "Gimbels HAS," "NOBODY but nobody beats Gimbels," and "The horse with the hansom behind doesn't come to plain, old Gimbels...
...Roadable planes have been built before. Examples: auto designer Bill Stout's "Skylander"; a roadable autogiro; an "Arrowbile"; a "Roadplane"-all experimental...
Kirkland's initial score, coming in the third period, was set up by the interception of a Bellboy pass deep in Lowell territory. A mixture or running plays and passes, all from the T-formation, brought the pigskin to the one yard line, where Bell cracked the stout Lowell line for six points. In the final period, the Deacons salted the game away with a drive from the Lowell 35, climaxed by Glynn's 10 yard scoring slash off tackle...