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Water Worm. Plastic garden hose which acts as a lawn sprinkler was put on sale by A. M. Andrews Co. of Portland, Ore. Holes punched along the Vinylite hose spray a 12-ft.-wide swath of lawn. Price for a 50-ft. length, which weighs only 1½ lbs. and can be rolled into a 6-in. bundle...
Several people started for the Bey with poised pins and had to line up for order's sake. Then they began. Before long, Tarah was clothed in a swath of white cloth, a smile to show he didn't mind at all, and about ten pins. When my medical acquaintance tried to shove his pin into the bony part of the Insensate Swami's hand, Bey, who does not speak English, whispered something to the interpreter. The interpreter did not bother to translate for the audience, but snatched the Bey's hand away from the grinning student and motioned...
Mothers Do Not Desert. Hunter Oberjohann traveled light. He slept beneath the sky on grass mat and saddle, ate only once a day, native style. To keep off mosquitoes, he often lived in a swath of thick toweling. All the while, day & night, he followed the herds through the stinking swamps, disdaining snakes, crocs and insects in his passion for pachyderms...
...Wide Swath. Native Dancer's easy, businesslike victory earned him a rest. Trainer Bill Winfrey, who has no intention of letting the horse out of sight, will take him to California with the racing stable, put him back in training in December after a precautionary ankle-"blistering" (i.e., tightening). Next race: Jamaica in April. "Anything more this season would be superfluous," explained Winfrey. "He's done all we could ask of him-answered all the questions...
...deep chest: "Those lungs may be his greatest asset. At the end of a race he never shows the slightest sign of being winded or tired." Winfrey likens Native Dancer's staying power to that of Henry Armstrong, the triple-crown champion-who cut as wide a swath in boxing as Native Dancer seems capable of doing in racing...