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Douglas workers were startled when the Tokio Kid first appeared, but soon adopted him. About a dozen posters since Pearl Harbor have shown him with teeth and claws growing progressively longer and sharper, a brow becoming more apelike, ears more pointed. A worm crawling out of a huge front tooth was eliminated, after one try, as a little too gruesome...
...Will the new back-bending program centered down in Soldiers Field make a human being, physically, out of the Widener worm, and a Charles Atlas out of the squash-court dilettante,?" is one of the questions that will soon be answered by the tests now being conducted by the Fatigue Laboratory at the Business School, according to Dr. Arlie V. Bok, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene...
...special interest not only to the Widener worm, but to all ardent bibliophiles as well, is the exhibition of the 50 Books of the Year now showing in the main lobby of Widener...
...consecutive months Department of Commerce figures for retail sales have topped the year before, but the chart at right shows the worm in this shiny apple: January was the fourth consecutive month when the only reason dollar volume was up was that the public was paying more money to get less goods. Ever since last October the physical volume sold has been lower than it was a year before, and the seeming increase in sales has been an optical illusion caused entirely by rising prices. Retail prices are now rising 2% a month. If that trend continues, year...
...went wrong. He discovered the Venezuelan pearl fisheries, which might have retrieved his reputation in Spain; but he did not realize what he had found, and a few months later a rival began to work them. In Panama he found gold, but could not get the metal out. With worm-riddled ships he tried to make the Spanish settlement on Haiti. He was forced to beach the boats on Jamaica, wait for months while rescuers, hoping he would die, refused to take...