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Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
...with so much talent for public relations, handsome Ed Stettinius has had a queer whirl from history...
Last week, earnest Ed found the Byrnes stand-in one whirl too many. In a letter to the President, he announced his wish to retire from history, and declared (a trifle dizzily, perhaps) that the job of organizing the U.N. was completed. After a decent interval for surprise and protest, the President accepted his resignation, and began casting around for a successor. Unfortunately, good stand-ins were as scarce in Washington as stars...
...Army wife, Rhoda Wenger had learned to live like a gypsy: for four years she had followed her husband, Corporal Leland Wenger, from one camp to another. Last winter, to give her a change of scene, he decided to take her to New York for a whirl. En route, their car crashed into a truck...
...mice, Drs. Green & Bittner developed a breed in which the cancer strain was particularly high. Bits of cancer tissue from infected high-strain mice were sliced, put in gravity-defying centrifuges. The materials thus separated from malignant cancer cells were put back in the centrifuge for a second whirl. What was left was a whitish, dustlike powder-grim carrier of the virus...