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Died. Brendan Bracken, since 1952 Viscount Bracken, 57, British publisher and industrialist, Minister of Information during World War II, retired Member of Parliament, board chairman of the Financial Times, onetime managing director of the Economist, board chairman of Union Corporation, Ltd., giant international mining concern; of throat cancer; in London. A carrot-topped Irishman who was brought up on a remote Australian sheep station, Bracken went to England at 15, began honing his invective facility and absorbing the wide sophistication that made him famous in Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor...
...bill's lobbyists, passage climaxed an uphill fight. Some 30 years ago, U.S. humane societies were aghast to discover that a steer being led to slaughter was first stunned by a hammer blow-often ineffectively-then slashed across the throat and allowed to bleed to death. Hogs were shackled by a leg to overhead conveyor belts, jabbed in their jugular veins, sometimes dumped alive into scalding water. The societies pressured meat packers into joining a committee on humane slaughter that achieved some innovations, e.g., some packinghouses began using a captive bolt pistol, which fires a metal rod into...
...Tommy Boston Jr. of Cartersville, Ga., was taken to St. Joseph's Infirmary in Atlanta, where Surgeon William A. Hopkins found that he had a short stub of gullet extending one-third the normal length down from his throat, then nothing. Dr. Hopkins led this stump out through a hole in the neck, so Tommy could get rid of saliva. For feeding, he ran a tube into the stomach. This worked well for six years, until Tommy was big enough to undergo the operation. Then Dr. Hopkins pushed the gullet stump back into place, stretched a piece of Tommy...
...have admonished after reporting that the Virgin had appeared to her in the Grotto. Merchants have not forgotten a word of it: they sell plastic bottles artfully shaped like Bernadette or the Virgin for carrying off the water, Bernadette-imprinted soap for washing in it. Other "water" items: perfume, throat lozenges, cakes and candy advertised as "made from water blessed by the Holy Father." One ad agency is talking of hiring an airplane to skywrite ads for its clients' products directly above the shrine...
...would diminish his ardor. It didn't. Finally, when he was 50, Elvira unjustly accused a servant girl of being his mistress, drove her to suicide - and Puccini to a frenzy of remorse. When he died in Brussels at 65 after an operation for cancer of the throat, his last words to his stepdaughter were: "Remember that your mother is a remarkable woman...