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...barroom clientele of Sydney, Australia, as a happy-go-lucky, well-set-up young Irishman from the New Guinea gold fields who had lately celebrated himself into a sanatorium, had not been on his uppers long before his abandoned claim was bought for $5,000. One morning he woke up to find that somewhere along his way he had paid out most of it for a 44-ft., 50-year-old harbor yacht called the Sirocco. Remorseful, but liking her low, raking lines, he decided to sail her 3,000 miles to New Guinea. All for it were three footloose...
When the Dionne Quintuplets clung to life 31 months ago in Callender, Ont. and the world outside woke up to their uniqueness, Photographer Fred Davis of the bustling Toronto Star suggested selling their pictures to newspapers and services to help meet the expense of keeping...
Like many another U. S. business, Spiegel, May, Stern woke up in 1932 with a bad hangover. From 1929 to 1932 it lost $2,575,000. Unlike its big neighbor, Montgomery Ward, it was shackled to no failing chain stores, but it was as badly off as Ward's in its ineffective merchandising methods. Spiegel's needed brains. For $100,000 a year, Ward's acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth...
...case of vitiligo, a harmless but mysterious skin condition which an occasional Negro develops. "About 30 years ago I had a little pimple on my forehead," said Will White. "I went to the barber shop and got some medicine to get rid of the pimple. Next morning I woke up with pimples all over my face. The medicine wasn't no good. The pimples kept coming and going. When they'd go they'd leave a white spot." The blotching spread until it brought about the depigmentation suddenly observed by Will White after his bath...
...Manhattan, Bert Lascoff, 20, explained to police that he woke from "a bad dream" to find that he had chased his father out of their bedroom, pursued him through five rooms, stabbed him eight times with a bread knife...