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...Wenger woke up in a hospital with a fractured right leg. His wife was critically hurt: severe multiple brain hemorrhages which caused complete paralysis of her limbs and facial muscles. She could not talk, eat or even smile. And she was pregnant...
...deepened all three of these factors by keeping the French waiting, hat in hand, for a loan. Last week, after the French voters had rejected the Communist-sponsored Constitution, special emissary Leon Blum, who had been cajoling U.S. officials for eight weeks, found his path easier. Washington woke up to the fact that, France might be saved for the world the U.S. hoped to build. At week's end the Export-Import Bank was on the point of giving France new.credits of about $650,000,000. Washington was well aware that France will elect a new Assembly June...
Bursts of gunfire sent herds of scrawny goats scampering along the rocky hillsides. Amman, dusty mountain capital of mountainous Trans-Jordan, last week woke out of its normal torpor to its most exciting holiday in a quarter of a century. Stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) Emir Abdullah was home from London with a British treaty recognizing Trans-Jordan (area 30,000 sq. mi.; pop. about 300,000) as a sovereign and independent state...
Machine Age. In San Diego, Sailor Willard Wheelus, after a rugged night in port, woke up in bed with a parking meter...
...tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...