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Then, for no good reason, Franklin Roosevelt woke up one morning with red eyes, a deep, froggy voice, unmistakable sniffles. Admiral McIntire was firm: no appointments. Grumbling, the President went back to bed. After a four-day rest he looked somewhat better, and joked playfully with reporters at his Friday press conference...
...President woke up with a stiff neck. Same day the elevator that carries him downstairs broke down; trapped, he spent the morning unable to greet John White, new U.S. Ambassador to Peru. Finally White went upstairs...
...neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
...airman woke with such a start that he fell overboard. He was speedily rescued...
...Story. Newspapers from coast to coast last week woke up to the peril all at once. Al Capone's Chicago hit the week's journalistic high when the Hearst Herald-American assigned six reporters, some armed with revolvers, to nose out back-alley stills, track down highjackers, and publicize ceiling violators. They seemed to find plenty to justify the American's screaming red headlines: highjackings running up to $100,000 a month, a wave of liquor-store holdups, petty racketeers glad to blab about Michigan farmers who "buy anything short of a hair rinse," bellhops getting...