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Tokens of Affection. In Milwaukee, a woman clerk at a local ration board was found to have handed out to her friends, since Christmas, 50,000 blue points, 50,000 red points, coupons for 3,500 lbs. of sugar and an undetermined number of shoe coupons...
Unwedding Announcement. In Bloomington, Ind., County Clerk Earl Baxter grew tired of $300 alimony gathering dust in his safe, advertised for the divorcee to come and pick it up. She came promptly, explained, "I didn't know I'd been divorced...
...Francisco he and his secretariat of 300 (mostly Americans) will have the drudging, thankless clerk's job of copying, translating and publishing, running the thousands of paper-clip and pencil chores of an international meeting.* But Alger Hiss will be an important figure there. As Secretary-General, managing the agenda, he will have a lot to say behind the scenes about who gets the breaks...
Rite of Spring. In Hillsdale, Mich., a citizen was refused his eighth marriage license in eight years, even after he confided to the county clerk that he had never been divorced, celebrated a private anniversary by getting remarried to his wife every spring...
...offing, Elva decided on another foray. But by that time the word had been passed around the Kansas City stores to watch out for strange blondes. When Elva sauntered into Peck's department store and ordered $32.12 worth of bracelet charms "to help make a charming personality," the clerk got suspicious. When she appeared at another counter, under another name, to order a black formal and a blue street outfit, the floor manager did some quick checking. Next night, when the dance began, Elva was in jail...