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...full-fledged debate over whether Mr. Cube constituted plain advertising or political electioneering (British law requires that all electioneering expenses must be made public), Mr. Cube turned up in another incarnation. His sponsors distributed free some 500,000 sets of Mr. Cube dice, neatly boxed in a miniature sugar carton together with rules for a new game called TATE & STATE. Each of Tate's dice has one of the letters S T A t E and a portrait of Mr. Cube on one of its six sides. The rules of play are like those of plain poker dice except...
Brief Encounter. In Houston, Cafe Operator Peter Allen Reinholt asked annulment of his six-day-old marriage when his bride disappeared with a box of cigars, a carton of cigarettes, 15 pounds of cold cuts and $133 in cash...
Shanghai citizens were tickled last week by a funeral with a live corpse. Riding in a coffin hauled on a cart was a grimacing old man clutching a carton of cigarettes, two cases of laundry soap, some boxes of matches and a roll of cloth. Every block or so the old man climbed out of his coffin to harangue the crowd on the evils of hoarding and speculating. Inscriptions on dancing banners and placards read: "Those who hoard are public enemies," and "Who damages the gold yuan will have his head chopped...
Happy Birthday. Last week, on Best's 52nd birthday, the trial ended. His sister Louise, a Methodist missionary teacher who had come up from Brazil, gave him a box of chocolates. His brother Aaron, principal of a Durham, N.C. high school, gave him a carton of cigarettes...
...whose citizens may legally consume nothing stronger than 3.2 beer, police poured $25,000 worth of whiskey down a drain. But elsewhere liquor sales-particularly of bonded Bourbon-boomed. An Indianapolis liquor dealer contrived a new kind of window display -a Nativity scene set up in a Haig & Haig carton...