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Died. Harry Arista Mackey, 65, one-time (1928-31) mayor of Philadelphia; as the result of an automobile accident; in Philadelphia. While he was mayor he sometimes disguised himself in tatters and false whiskers to wander at night among the city's poor and jobless...
...sighed. He would resort to his perennial remedy for his perennial nostalgia. Tonight he would wander up to the Geographic Institute and see Sacha Guitry in "Perles de la Couronne." He would pretend he was in his little "theatre du quartier." He would sit back in the beguiling darkness and, full of the "light sane joy of life," he would wink knowingly at some bespectacled Radcliffe girl...
...microscopic roundworm that enters the human digestive system in undercooked pork, and burrows into the lining of the small intestine. Result: abdominal pains, diarrhea, muscular tenderness, even high fever, delirium and coma. Trichinae, which rarely infect children, may remain with a patient till the end of his life, often wander in the spinal fluid, lungs, heart, retinas and milk of nursing mothers. Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Archibald L. Hoyne and Abraham Alvin Wolf of Chicago reported a new form of trichinosis in an eleven-month-old Negro baby who died of diphtheria. Autopsy...
...Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length assignments, that stations were free to pick their own wave lengths, to wander at will through the frequencies. More than 200 stations jumped into the air in less than a year, mingled their random signals with the howls of heterodynes, raised bedlam that once more provoked a storm of pained and angry protest from listeners...
...Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle's apartment it had been His Lordship's pleasure to play with...