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...public ownership but because they plan to get their electricity from Cove Creek Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority's proposed power plant on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. The Cincinnati Southern, municipally-owned railway, passes within 10 mi. of the proposed dam-site. Transmission lines could be cheaply strung along the right-of-way into Cincinnati where current would be distributed by a publicly-owned system...
...stunned from the fight he had put up in his cell. He made no outcry, even when a young boy leaped on his back and cut off one of his ears. He fell often under foot as the mob dragged him along. He was dead before they strung him up to an oak tree in sight of Judge Duer's house. Some mobsters tried to set fire to what few rags remained on the corpse. There was not enough to burn, so the body was dragged back to the court house, soused with gasoline and lighted. "Here...
...Chan lurks omniscently on the set while the guests take turns popping in & out. He pins things at last on the most disarming member of the cast, after a sentimental interlude with another Chinese (recognizable as such by black pajamas, bent knees, croaking falsetto, handscraping). All this is capably strung together but will take the breath of none but rabid Channists...
...byproducts" Pro Vines can endorse is a new string for racquets called Sinu. He and several other players used it in last month's Pacific Southwest Tournament. Made not from catgut (sheep intestine) with which tennis racquets are commonly strung, Sinu is made from calf's tendon. Developed by Charles T. (''Tommy") Davis and Dr. George Aaron Sharp in Brooklyn, it has long been used as a substitute for gut in surgical sutures. It is manufactured like a textile. The gristly tendon is "exploded" into a tuft of fluffy white material like cotton, but much tougher...
...fashion elsewhere, partly because famed Norman Brookes, who became head of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association after he retired from active tournament competition, continued to prefer them. Australia's Adrian Quist and Donald Turnbull used the same kind. Unlike U. S. players who have their bats strung, with gut so fine that it never lasts more than one day, often less than a set, Champion Crawford uses "any kind" of gut, thick, durable and oldfashioned, has his racquets restrung as many times...