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...night long and into the morning, the rescue craft searched Nantucket Sound, but no ship could they find in distress. At 5 a. m. two Massachusetts State Troopers visited Captain Brown with a warrant, locked him up for drunkenness, despite his stout assertion that he was stone sober, that there wasn't a drop in the house. Later that morning, at Edgartown District Court, a magistrate believed the cops, convicted Captain Brown. The captain took the rap like a good soldier, but he shook his head soberly. "I tell you, I heard it," he insisted. "I would...
...Bengal (1932-37) for taking three attempts on his life with a stiff upper lip. After he was appointed to the Cabinet 14 months ago, he was bitterly criticized for the way he coordinated A. R. P., emergency transport, evacuation; but no one could say he was not a stout fellow under fire...
...doctors well know, the application of sex hormones toughens the delicate mucous membranes of the nose. Several years ago, Dr. Ziskin noted that 20 women receiving sex hormones for menstrual difficulties all had stout, germ-resistant mouth linings, and firm, ruddy gums. So he tried massaging the gums of monkeys with salves of testosterone, or oestrogen, the male and female sex hormones. After long experiments, results were so good that he rubbed testosterone on the bleeding gums of two men, oestrogen on the gums of one woman...
...were directly responsible for Editor Walker's sudden resignation. One was Colonel Guy T. Visniskki, a suave, stout, egg-bald figure familiar to the office of many a sick newspaper, who turned up in the Ledger office last November to make an efficiency survey. The other was Stanley Walker himself...
...MYSTERY BOOK-Anthony Abbot, Leslie Ford, David Frome, Mary Roberts Rinehart & Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Four novelettes, one full-length novel-all good-by five crack mystery mongers...