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...radio station is consequently labeled WGN; station WIOD in Miami symbolizes "Wonderful Isle of Dreams," and Atlanta's WSB means "Welcome South, Brother." Other appropriate call letters: the coyote howl of KIYI for Shelby, Mont.; KENO for gambling-mad Las Vegas, and KAVE for New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns...
Love Me, Love My Boa. In Carlsbad, N. Mex., District Judge C. Roy Anderson recessed the divorce case of Charles and Dale Wright when the couple could not agree on the value of their common stock: two cobras, two boa constrictors, one anaconda, two eagles, one hawk, four Gila monsters, one owl, five donkeys, two chimpanzees, two African lions, two mountain lions, two lynxes, three raccoons, one coyote, one porcupine, one skunk, one South African rattlesnake, and an unspecified number of Southwestern rattlesnakes...
...quit training, was long past his peak and weighed 285 Ibs. But he was hounded endlessly, both by Promoter Tex Rickard and the public. He went to Europe to relax and was startled one day when Britain's King Edward VII stepped out of a shop in Carlsbad and accosted him. The King, who had been picking out silver foxes for a lady friend, wanted to know when he would beat Johnson. Jeffries came home, and on Oct. 29, 1909 signed to fight Li'l Arthur 45 rounds or to a finish. There was jubilation from coast...
Tongue-Tied. In Carlsbad, N. Mex., the sheriff's office intercepted a letter which advised two prisoners charged with passing a phony check: "Smear your face with rosewater, roots and salt. Then cut open a beef tongue and write the names of opposition witnesses inside and bury it, and no judge will dare to convict...
When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia back in 1939, Hans Lenk's world was washed from beneath him. In the years after World War I-during which he served as a captain in the Austro-Hungarian army-he had built up a prosperous export business in Carlsbad. But the Nazis, busily stripping Jews of their fortunes, sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, then released him and told him to get out of the country-or else...