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...Hard Sell. In Waco, Texas, less than two weeks after the Clifton-Simpson, Inc. furniture store advertised a "Sink or Sell'' sale, a two-inch downpour caved in the roof, did some $50,000 damage...
...camera moved in past the masked surgeon and his assistants to a closeup of an incision about 1½ inches long. The surgeon reached into the hole, drew out a lump, cut it off with four snips of a pair of surgical scissors. The two-inch lump was placed in a pneumatic tube, and 45 seconds later it had traveled 2,000 feet to the laboratory. There before another camera, a pathologist examined it under a microscope, ticking off the tumor's characteristics in a matter-of-fact tone. At this point the tension was fever high...
Virtually unnoticed by the press in the flood of first day Senate bills rests an outline of new rules for committee investigations. Throughout the last few years the actions of several notorious committees have shown that the fine print of a few procedural rules are needed to halt the two-inch headlines of unrestrained chairmen. The abuses of McCarthy, Velde, and Recce, among others, are so well known--holding one-man hearings unknown to other committee members, summoning witnesses under false pretenses, restricting the full advice and support of witness' counsel--that the new bill of Senator Thomas Hennings deserves...
Later in the second quarter, Lowell made its deepest penetration of the game, reaching the two-inch line. But the Puritan line, led by Bill Glaser, held...
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser made a chilling discovery 30 minutes before he was scheduled to pilot one of his speedboats in the Lake Tahoe Gold Cup race. Someone had sawed half through the two-inch propeller shaft of one of his Gold Cup racers, and had stuffed nuts, bolts and rags into the carburetor and blower. Another had been thoroughly doused with gasoline. It was, said Kaiser, "an attempt at plain, cold murder." But he climbed into a third boat in his fleet, buzzed off to a second place behind Shipping Heir Stanley Dollar...