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...Merry Widow. Proprietor Lewis, flanked by a lawyer, is careful never to use such words as "treatment" or "patients." "Hell," says Lewis, "we're mining men, developing a uranium-bearing deposit. We're not doctors and don't pretend to be." But even with a daily limit of 30 new visitors, the mine takes in as much as $3,000 a day, and nobody has seen any trucks of uranium ore coming...
...small, clearly drawn painting, it was by a local artist named Charles W. Nickum, who, so the story went, got Lincoln to pose for him one day on a swing through Ohio in the late 1850s. A committee of Dayton's citizens gave Artist Nickum's widow $1,000 for it in 1928, and the museum has swellingly displayed it for the edification of Lincoln fans ever since...
Before long, Yvonne has wound up in San Francisco with Hudson's cash, and is palming herself off as the war widow of the scion of a wealthy Nob Hill family. But she is not really happy. "All of a sudden," she admits, "I've got everything I want, but I don't want anything I've got." She is also smarting under a crack made to her by Hudson: "Money can't do everything, Roxy. There's a certain thing called class, and you haven...
...ominous warning from the faculty that any "intellectual bootlegging" of lecture notes would be prosecuted sobered unprepared freshmen who thought that one of the Square tutoring schools would be just the thing. Still Widow Nolan's did a flourishing business and a New York firm succeeded in smuggling printed lecture notes--ostensibly designed for adult education--past the watchful deans. The class of '27 weathered the storm and breathed easily till the results came...
...story is simply what happens when an honest cop tries to take a star witness, widow of a notorious Capone-like character, to the coast to testify before the Grand Jury. Naturally, the boys in Chi would rather this moll didn't live to sing. But uncorruptible and battling, if a little dim-witted, the forces of virtue and justice...