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Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation...
Married. Lucy Truman Aldrich, 21, daughter (third of four) of Winthrop Williams Aldrich, board chairman of whop ping Chase National Bank; and Army Lieut. David Wetmore Devens, 26; both for the first time ; in Manhattan...
...Going whop to the office and blooie home to sleep and biff got married and bam had children and oof got fired...
...think your description of the crash at Daytona was a commendable try. One thing that might have confused Reader de Lany was the lapse of too much reading time between the whop, crash, and smash. Now (ahem) if you had written it thus: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway . . ., there was a rending crack! whop! smash! as the ship slammed full tilt into a pine power pole, as the motors ripped out and fell and the rest of the plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
With regard to the "Whop, Crack, Smash" article, I heartily agree with Mr. de Lany...