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Died. Dushon John, 67, "king" of Serbian gypsies in the Western U.S.; of uremia; in Oakland, Calif. During an elaborate, jolly funeral, his money, toothbrush and hair oil were also buried, to see him through the journey into the Beyond...
...corn and bumper crops, there lives a Brobdingnagian boy. He stands 7 ft. 7 in his socks, sleeps in a 9-ft. bed, and picks as much as 300 pounds of cotton a day. When he isn't farming, 19-year-old Max Edward Palmer, wearing a little toothbrush mustache, is a freshman at Walnut Consolidated High and plays forward on the basketball team. Last week, he scored all of Walnut's 24 points in the first half, against bewildered Friars Point High. Earlier in the week, he scored 78 points in one game...
...George Reresby Sitwell of Renishaw was an extraordinary man. He spent money like water, dabbled in medieval lore, invented a musical toothbrush that played Annie Laurie. In a milder way, his wife, Lady Ida, was extraordinary too. Though she invented nothing, she also spent money like water (she once paid a large price for a pig said to be psychic), as befitted a daughter of the Earl of Londesborough and a descendant of the royal Plantagenets...
Ernest Hemingway visited Hollywood Beautician Gloria Bristol (specializing in male customers) for a scalp-&-skin treatment, and learned a new beauty trick-the use of a toothbrush. "He told me," she said, "he always had brushed his teeth with a Turkish towel...
...paying this fabulous and fantastic price"). And from Kityang in South China the Reverend Carl M. Capen writes that when he goes into the back country these days all he takes with him are "the necessities of life-a change of clothing, a Chinese New Testament, a shaving set, toothbrush-and several copies of TIME'S Pony Edition...