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The Washington times., 1938-05-09
He's Nervous Now,
Says Winchell on Air

In his broadcast last night over WMAL
Walter WinChell said:
"Mr. and Mrs. Washington. I am getting
little nervous as the time approaches for
me to come to Washington and be confronted
by all those beautiful girls am getting
nervous, say, because hear that too many
people there think it was WincheN who libeled
the pretty girls in that city. merely reported
what q famous man wrote me, and 1 do wish
everybody in Washington would get that right.
At any rate, 1 leave for Washington to get an
eyefuI instead Of an earfuI"
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man, also were to attend the con.
ference, but as witnesses only.
The dire question confronting
the consultants was whether to
operate on the baby for the re
moval of a cancerous tumor af.
fecting her eyes or to let nature
take an inevitably fatal cours-
LEFT EYE GONE
Sight already is gone from the
baby'S left eye. The swiftly spread.
ing glioma has within the short
span of it's life begun to attack
the optic nerve on its deadly path
to the brain.
But, with the left eye removed,
sight in the right might still be
saved by X-ray treatments. And
then again, it might not. And If
the X-rays failed to check the
tumor, there was the likelihood it
would then be too late to save her
life either. Thus the doctors had
three courses to choose from.
Should they remove both eyes
at once?
Should they remove but one, in
a gamble to leave the baby partial
sight?
Should they decline to operate
and, in effect, sanction a mercy
death. since unrestrained glioma
is invariably fatal?
FIVE EYE SPECIALISTS
DR.. Irving S. Cutter, dean of the
Northwestern Medical School will.
act as chairman. Five of the others
are eye specialists. They are DR.
Maurice H. Cottle Of the Illinois
Masonic Hospital; DIR. Sanford
Clifford, of the Northwestern
Medical School; DIR. Max N. Kul
vino the Hines Memorial Hospital;
DR.. Robert H. Good of the Garfield
Park Hospital; and DR.. e. v. L
Brown of the University of Illinois
Medical School and Billings Memo
rial Hospital.
The brain surgeons included
were DR.. CasSiuS C. Rogers Of the
Garfield Park Hospital; DR.. Theo
dore Stone of Northwestern Uni
Versity and Cook County Hospital
DR.. Harold N. Watt, an x-ray
specialist from the Garfield Parh
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

Wednesday at /, Drew Pearson,
himself a political Little Boy
Peep" will be host to Winchell and
the Winchellettes at the May.
flower. From 3 to p. m. the
party will be the guests of j. Edgar
Hoover on tour of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. From
$50 to 8 p. m. a cocktail party is
scheduled at the Pail Mall Room
OF the Raleigh, and from 8:l5 to
$3.50 the Hi-Hat will produce mer.
riment and fun.
Then, at $50, the party goes to
the Capitol Theater where, to
pretty tunes by the orchestra and
quipS by Gordon Hittenmark as
master of ceremonies, Winchell,
and probably the judges, Miss
Gina Brennan, Wolcott Wagga-
man, and Robert Gates, will select
the lovelieSt of the IL beauties Sc
lected from the 300 entrants in
the Walter Winchell Sweepstakes.
At 1915 the girls and Winchell
are to be guests of the Melody
Club, and the Walter Winchell
Sweepstakes will close with a din
ner at the Shoreham at midnight.
A REAL TREAT AHEAD
And what a treat is waiting for
the lucky winnerI
For three days and nights she
will be the guest of Walter Win
chell in the Manhattan which he
knows as nobody else does. There
she will dine in the finest of the
city's brilliant night clubs, witness
a Broadway play, probably a first
night" see Radio City from back
stage, dance to the music of the
nations most famous swing bands,
and have the kind of time that
every girl has dreamed of having
in the Big Town.
She will leave Washington on
a luxury airliner of Eastern Air
lines as the personal guest of
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Amer
ica'S famous wartime ace, now
head Of the aviation company.
She will be wearing a smart traV-
cling suit, the gift of the Model
Shop, 1903 F. st. N. W., and a
17-jewel gold-cased BuloVa wrist
watch, the gift of the Ross Jewel
ry Co., 1881 F st. N. w.
While she dances, in Manhat-
tan, with the celebrities to whom
Winchell will introduce her, she
will be wearing a beautiful eve
ming gown, also the gift of the
Model Shop.
And Miss Elizabeth Newton, Of
WPA, selected as the most beauti-
full Virginia-born girl among the
entrants in the Sweepstakes, has
been invited to be the weekend
guest of Down Country, Virginia'S
society publication, and of Roland
Eaton, manager of the magnifi.
cent Cavalier Hotel. at Virginia
Beach.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Hero Saves Grew
From wild Train
Runaway Switched Aside in Mad Race Just
Before CrQsl1inq Into Station

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, May INS.).-A string of 1s
runaway freight shrekng down mounainsde at $50
miles houra main line station dead ahead with workmen
and buildings seemingly facing certain destruction
quckwtted inspectors action that avered tragedy the
nick of tmethese the narrowing circumstances which
wrote a new and heroic saga Of the rails today.
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DESERT AIRPORT
IS MYSTERY TO
U. S. SEARCHERS
Hangar in Rock Fissure
And Supplies Found

LOS ANGELES, May 9 G.N.sJ.
Purpose and ownership Of a mys-
terious airport hidden in the desert
wastelands 100 miles east Of here
today had Federal authorities
baffled after a three,month in.
veStigation.
HARD TO FIND
Accessible only by one little-used
road, the airport is so situated q
person approaching can be seen
miles away. Marked only by a huge
rock painted white, it was said
that the airport would not be no
ticed by aviators unaware Of its
existence.
ROCK HANGAR
A hangar for planes is a huge
rock fiSsure camouflaged by a
canvas curtain, while living quar-
terS for pilots and a caretaker is a
large dugout. Customs officers said
that when they first visited the
mystery flying field food supplies
for a few men for several months
were found in underground cham
berS,
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AAC washington LINES, Wnlc0
sponsored the sweepstakes to
prove Winchell was wrong when
he published the statement Of an
anonymous correspondent tn q t
there are no beautiful women in
the Government Offices" is pre-
pairing to play host to Winchell
himself and the dozen lovely
finaliStS.
A ROSY BLUSH DUE
And Winchell is preparing to
blush his rosiest and hand his
largest and most colorful orchid
to the lucky girl who will be the
Miss Washington of the Walter
Winchell Sweepstakes.
Not only that, but Washington'S
faVorite night spots are preparing
to out-do themselves to entertain
Walter and his WinchelletteS in a
gay round of festivities that begins
tomorrow afternoon with the ar
rival of the columniSt, and ex-
tends into the wee hours Of Wed
neSday night when the sweep
stakes winner has literally romped
home in the closest beauty race
the town has ever known.
Yesterday, in preparation for
the tension Of the finals, L. Gard
ner Moore, manager Of the Shore
ham, invited the finaliStS to avail
themselves of the Shoreham Pool,
and several of the II did so. You'll
find pictures of them in the Wash
ington Times today!
WINNER TO BE QUEEN
More than a score Of festival
queens" visit Washington in the
course of a season-but the Walter
Winchell Sweepstakes will reverse
this process and create a member
of beauty's royalty when Miss
Washington of the Sweepstakes is
selected. She will receive an invi-
tation to reign as Queen Morgan
II at Berkeley Springs, w. Va,
during the famous tomato festival
September 2, 3 and 4. The Young
Mems Business Club of Berkeley
Springs will fete her, and she will
be attended by two princesSeS
when she is crowned by Gov.
Homer Holt. The tomato, Incl
dentally, was known to our grand
parents as the love apple!
The schedule for tomorroW'S
gayety for the finaliStS will begin
when they assemble at The Wash
ington Times at 4:3O when they
will all go to the Shoreham to
greet Walter Winchell. Then, at
Z p. m. they will gather with Win
chell as dinner guests Of the Vari-
ETY. Club. At 1890 the party will
go to the Maryland Club Gardens
to dance and enjoy the shows un-
till 2 a. m. when they will return
to the Willard for breakfast at the
Blue Grotto,
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REJECTED REMUNERATION

Queen Caroline of England, con.
sort of George ", rejected an
offer OF $25o,000 annually to re.
nounce her title when he ascended
the throne.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Washington Fades Atlantic Ci Look at These WncheH FnaAst

RECLINING at their and indulging in more or less
serious perage about the the outcome of the Sweepstakes
are Il to r) Margaret Krus Btuminous Coal Commission;
Elaine Cheverlange Public Works Administrations Blanche
Brewer Federal Housing Administration and Betty Gray
General Accounting Office. Uncle Sans lucky says ALL
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
MExIco-U. S. BOUNDARY

The boundary between Mexico
and the United States is 1883
miles long.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
|WlnChell Beauties
Busy Preparing
For Race Finals
COIunanist Himself to Pick Winner From
IL Girls WednesdGy Niuht

Twelve Of the Governments beautiful girl workers are
spending today and tomorrow preparing themselves for the
finals Of the Walter Winche Sweepstakes to be held Wednes
day night at the Capitol Theater.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
In Swim!

TAKING a bit of a rest
from the tension of the
Walter Winchell Sweep
stakes, here are a few Of
the finalists who were en-
tertained at the Shoreham
Hotel pool by L. Gardner
Moore, manager of the hos
telry. They're IL of the fl
nalists, you know, and the
winner, to be chosen next
Wednesday night, will en-
joy three days in New York
as a guest Of the Broadway
columnist. How about it,
Walter? Are you blush
ing? okay, Mr.. Winchell!
Washington Times Staff Photos
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

PERFECT mermaid is
Betty Gray, General Account
ing Office worker, as she ap-
peared yesterday relaxing at
the Shoreham Hotel pool.
Miss Gray, one of the most
popular GAO entrants, has
successfully weathered the
semifinal and final testing.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

READ THE GLOBE ADS!
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TIMELY TOPICS

We have heard a great deal
about torpedoes, airplanes and
ships being controlled by radio,
hut how practical these may be
come is a question Still, an auto
mobile under radio control recent
ly performed much like one driv
en- by human being. 1t chashed
into another car and then hit a
pedestrian.
An Oregon college student is
named June May March, accord
ing 10 the American Magazine
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his part. Listeners
well as her own role.
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all that they win HE themselves back
% a hotel when the first flies.
those currently
in
the
Adolphe Menou and
Wednesday programs
tn new Oh
vivid the troubled days Europe
middle
suddenly against the cast Stratton
European broadcast.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

Charging that treatment By
her parents caused her to SUITE,
permanent injuries. Mary Petty
sued her mother and father for
$4,000 damages in Fairmont
w. Va.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

William Echols. mounted
patrolman of Pearia. H.. has at
tached a radio to his saddle to
keep him in touch with head
quarters.
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which also mentions a man in Oh
cott, n. Y, named John Hodge
Opera House Centennial Gargling
Oil Samuel ]. Tilden Ten Brook.
but whose friends call him simply
Buck.
James Barton, the actor. hasn't
been exactly unemployed lately.
In the early evening he does a
vaudeville stunt. then rushes to a
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

legitimate theatre to play the
leading role in Tobacco Road"
after which he goes back for his
second vaudeville bill at mid
night. In daytime he has been
managing and playing on a Long
Island baseball team.
Payne Rather. the Parsons
lawyer now running for governor
of Kansas on the Republican
ticket, is an odd mixture of ra-
cial and religious elements. His
father was Jewish, his mother
Irish, while he is a deacon in the
Christian Church of his home
town.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

Tuesday night hit variety show. THE American
people today have such intelligent grasp of news
events" asserts Hope, ''that comedy keyed to the
news goes over with them" Hope illustrates his
point by recalling that gags covering everything
from the energetic doings of the First Lady to the
latest football upset and the upswng hair dress have
been laugh producers on his show.
Saddest radio actor in Chicago at the approach
Of fall is Spencer Bentley, Bob of the famous Betty
and Bob dramas. Bentley, a dyed-in-the-wooI
yachtsman has lived aboard his brdge-deck cruiser
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

Gail Henshaw, heard with beautiful Alice Frost
in the Big Sister program on Chs has the distinc-
ton of being radios only Office boy from the distaH
side. Some time ago, the actor who to play the
part of the Office boy missed the show and Gail read
, liked her SO well that she continues with that as
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

Johnsone Mutual network, beat IS
vehicle
brilliant
of heart
Comedians have thrown the traditional joke book for the front
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21
LISTEN TO THIS
By TOM FIZDALE

Saturday Night Serenade Chs
that it's there because lot OF people want to near
of
y checking watching fluctuations of the besselng
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Candid fans shooting pictures during broadca have given
shutters might easily picked the
The of Family Mine have solved the problem
take during
sals-but broadcast pictures taboo
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1938-10-21

records, sheet music, seIectlonS OF IedulIs UdIuS
and host of other listener preference indications
throughout the U. S. A. Gustave Haenschen, bril-
liant conductor together with singing stars Mary
Eastman Bill Perry and Emil Cote, director of the
Serenaders, then get together and build the show
you hear.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15
MAY DAY FESTIVAL

On May IA, the campus queen"
will again reign supreme as the
Queen of May in the very lovely
and traditional May Day Festival
held each year on the scenic
campus of Susquehanna Univer-
sity, Selinsgrove. This year the
males were stunned when the
final selection was made and
Miss Esther A. Yingling of AL
toona, has been chosen as the
Queen of May and Miss Esther
Kaufman, of Johnstown, as her
Lady-in-Waiting.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15

The first woman in the province
of Quebec to receive q masters
papers, Miss Francoise LeMay,
twenty y-three-year-OId French Cana
dian, is shown at the wheel of her
tanker, the Adelphie, in the St.
Lawrence river. The tanker, owned
by her father, who will retire this
spring, will be placed in her sole
command.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15
RooNsBoRo SIGNS

Boonsboro has a speed sign at
each approach to the town, on
the National Highway, placed by
the Lions Club. The sign which
gives a welcome to Boonsboro,
also specifies a speed of 20 miles
per hour.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15

Rev. Chas. M. Sturdevant, Hi
nois evangelist, was sent to jail
for year upon his wife's com
plant of non-support and the
charge that he was involved in an
Illicit love affair.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15
GHT LUNCHES
MEAN EFFICIENCY
,ccessful Experiments
Made by DR.. Laird,
Psychologist

rbe theory that a light lunch
Lis an efficient afternoon
..ence says its sound. DR.. Don
# Laird, experimental psy-
slogist. recently conducted tests
Ian led him to that conclusion.
j describes them in the current
Il #arian Magazine.
Eight young men ate in DR..
&rd,s laboratory each noon for
.honth. "We told them we were
aking studies of air conditions"
q saws. "If they had known that
sNas the size of the noon lunch
i were studying. their bias one
n or another would doubtless
ke shown up in the results.
eTo make this deception more
ective, and keep the men con-
sced that we were studying air
nditioning, detailed records
BE kept of temperature, humid
4 air flow, and barometric pres
ae. From time to time different
brs we're sprayed into the ven
bting ducts just to clinch this
5enific deception.
#On half of the days, scattered
random through the month,
ev were given a full-sized meal,
Ah trays of bread and platters
seconds on the table in front
them. They could eat all they
snted. On the other half of the
Us, however, they were given a.
6ry lunch of somewhat restrict
portions, and with no oppor-
pity for second helpings.
8Then starting at l o'clock In
4 afternoon we gave them tests
find out how much more cap
ee of doing mental work they
sre on the days they had eaten
4 light meals. The results were
pst spectacular, and more than
pdicate the habit of those busi-
|ss and professional persons
10 eat lightly at noon.
Tin correctly recalling address
memorized only a half hour
eviously, for instance, these
Pn were % per cent better on
e light-meal afternoons. Ac-
racy in purely mental addition,
thout the aid of paper and pen
was rs per cent better after
+ light meal than after the
avy one. After the heavy meals
tention tluctuated almost sew
ty per cent more"
Fhe stomach in a gorged
atus, DR.. Laird explains, sucks
pod away from the brain, which
sayes the head in no condition
DO much else than sleep-as
my persons know to their sor-
" early in the afternoon"
recommending hearty break
St, a light lunch, and an ample
nner for work days, the psy-
ologist would make no excep-
N of Sunday. "The usual Sun
y stuffing at noon leaves one
oggy and poor company the re-
binder of the day. l suspect it
a factor, too, in Sunday auto
Dbile accidents. On Sundays it
wiser to have a light lunch at
ON, with heavier meal in the
ening."
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15

Uncivilized lands: Where the
white stranger doesn't lock up for
the night if assured there isn't
another in the vicinity.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15

Watch The Globe Grow!
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-04-15

Say You Saw It In The Globe
The Washington times., 1938-10-10

obviously was frightened up and
their hitting was something less
than sensational. The Yankees
beat the Pittsburgh Pirates four
straight in 1927 end took the st.
Louis Cardinals in 1928 and the
Chicago Cubs in 1882 by the same
margin, with the result that they
broke their own record yesterday
in winning four in a row again.
The Yankees, in fact, so COM
pletely dominated the series that
it was never even close. They hit,
they fielded and they got the,
pitching.
The Cubs, in contrast, played
pretty terrible ball. In every game
they did something to ruin their
chances, while the Yankees went
ahead and put together their vic
tory.
HERMAN'S ERROR COSTLY
In the first game, Billy Herman
made an error that finally re-
suited in two Yankee runs. In the
second game, Hack at third base
and Jurges at short, ran together
on an easy grounder and turned
it into a double for Gordon Of the
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DUROCHER seen
DODGERS PILOT

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 G.N.SJ.
Appointment of Leo Durocher,
scrappy shortstop, as manager of
the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball
club, is expected to be announced
some time this week, the New
York Journal-American said today.
According to the Journal story,
the present manager, Burleigh
Grimes, is slated for a job as pilot
of one of the Brooklyn farm clubs.
With the deal lacking official
confirmation, Grimes remained
Dodger mentor.
The Washington times., 1938-10-10
FeLdman 6-5 Fauorite
To Win Over QuarleS
BY HOWARD JACOBS

Lew Feldman, crack Scotch
Jewish battler of New York, and
Norment Quarles, blond Hender-
sonville, N. c., lightweight, head
line tonight's card at Turner's
Arena which will officially open
the 1938-39 indoor boxing season.
And on the outcome rest several
attractive matches. one with Pedro
Montanez, clever Puerto Rican, in
Philadelphia, and another here
against little Petey Sarron in the
short future.
Born in Edinburgh of Jewish
parents 20 years ago, Feldman has
compiled one of the outstanding
records in the history of the light
weight class, and at present rates
among the First Five. He is seek.
ing a return match with Henry
wo-Title" Armstrong (and it
seems everyone is. at that for
The Washington times., 1938-10-10

RhOda christmas $1,UOO.
It is probably this horse that
will be the reason for the close Of
the War Admiral-SeabiScuit con-
troversy, for it was he that
knocked down War Admiral from
his long list of victories.
There seems to be more assur-
ance of the long-anticipated meet
ing of War Admiral and Seabiscuit
than ever before. It has been men,
toned, discussed and fixed, but
the public has always felt more or
less skeptical as to whether the
event would actually take place.
OFFERS OPPORTUNITY
Again Alfred Gwynne Wander
bilt, president of the Maryland
Jockey Club at Pimlico, offers the
opportunity to bring this pair Of
champions together in the Pimlico
special in November. Now that
both horses have been defeated,
and both are about ready to retire
to the stud, there seems little
chance of keeping them apart.
Tom Smith, trainer for Charles
s. Howard, has already trans
ferred Seabiscuit to Pimlico in
preparation for his important en-
gagement with Glen Riddles War
Admiral. He will be vanned from
Pimlico to Laurel to run in the
$500 Laurel Handicap.
Sport Marvel, splendid brown
gelding owned by U. S. Randle,
took high honors in the Suitland
horse show yesterday. This rep
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after long and honorable with
the Yankees place filled by JOE GORDON who moved
I'm from Newark last spring TOMMY played in
the oufeld place of JAKE POWELL The last named got
into not bat at ALL and had no chances in the
oueld i.
FIND MYSELF SMILING BIT the performances Of
GORDON He stepped the place of the ODIN OF THE
NFELDs neoptyte in the place Of all that was Wis wise and m
himself heo laurel before the throng
HEINRICH didn't hit well as Gordon but ne did crack
home run What price experience? WHAT VALUE WISDOM
DIAMOND?
r T THAT A TEAM SHOULD HOLD TOGETHER
stretch of setting the pace
you will find baseball men who watched this New
opposition who WILL RISK THE OPIN
ION that Yankees will not WIN NEXT YEAR You Will
think that the Yankees will not dominate the
league FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD. And as President
Harridge the American League put It, THERE'S NOTHING
THAT CAN DONE ABOUT IT"
WHEN YOU OF THE YANKEES, talk Of an organi
49,. CONTINUED ON Page H. Col 2)
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skins TO SIGN
TILLIE MANTON

Tillie Manton, former Texas
Christian halfback, recently re-
leased by the New York Giants,
is expected to sign a Redskin con-
tract within a few days.
Manton conferred with Owner
George Marshall here, and it has
been reliably reported that they
agreed to terms. The former
Texas back is a specialist with the
dropkick, and would be a reliable
asset to the local pro eleven as
Riley Smith is still on the injured
list.
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Victorious
Miss COOtes Wins Sd
Tennis CrOWn

HOT SPRINGS, Va. Oct. 10.
Pairing with Frank G. Shields
in the mixed doubles, Mary
COOtes, of Alexandria, Va, won
her third title in the invitation
fall tennis tournament yester-
day, defeating MargOt Lee, of
Washington, and J. Gilbert Hail.
of New York, 6-3, 3-6, Ga.
Miss COOtes previously won
the wOmen's singles, and paired
with MargOt Lee to capture the
WOmen'S doubles.
The Washington times., 1938-10-10

alone. But he gamely recovered
the ball.
Later he tried to throw a block
on a Giant tackler and his effort
almost made the spectators in
their seats vince with pain.
TAKES REAL NERVE
But, at that, Baugh made six
out of Is passes good, which is a
testimonial to his courage. And
his batting down Giants passes
late in the game took real nerve.
It was Texas Day at Griffith
Stadium, and distinguished
group of citizens from the Lone
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